Before also he had astha where he wanted her to be and how he wanted her to be , her complete love and attention on him , irrespective of everyone and everything, but then it was shlok's ego which demanded her love and dominated her completely Irrespective of astha's feelings, as his due.
First time shlok wanted her for avenging baba and family but now he wants astha for himself personally,
First time he became astha's boss to be in contact with her to but now astha is his 50%partner in business and life as wife,
First time he faked romance(Idoubt the fake part )to make her fall in love with him and now that she truly loves him, he seems to be genuinely attracted to her (he always was but ignored it)
First time he married her and withdrew himself with hate but divorce seems to bring them more closer than ever before,
First time he was the one to hunt her down but now he is the one to protect her with his life,
First time he never gave a thought to what she wanted but now cares and thinks about her needs too
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First time astha initialized the divorce he brought her back forcibly and promised her a lifetime sentence with him ,but now he pleaded her not to divorce him and stay with him because he loved her and needed her in his life
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But now even though he seemed to change shlok is basically an demanding, dominating and egoistic man even though as well as caring, loving and trustworthy man too.
Shlok's ego and love both showed again when the night before the divorce he thought astha was hiding her family photo and again saw it forcibily even though adtha pleaded him not too ,showing his possesiveness of astha and his fear that she might not choose him but when he saw it was his picture she was holding then he gave it back to her generously but was emotionally effected a lot but his attitude and his black clothes indicated that if astha had not choosen him he might have gone back to his egoistic and dark mode , old shloky and would have brought her back somehow to him.
But next day when astha choose her love and shloky , then only did he say no to divorce giving her a chance to choose.,
First time shloky wanted to be her everything even her bhagwan now she really accepts him as her patidev and saviour, above all and everyone else, with true love and surrender ,so now shloky also seems to have accepted astha as his wife even though not yet completely but with a little more love than before and is slowly, slowly, surrendering to her too.
Today was full of heartfelt and touching scenes EK BAAR PHIR and differed so much from before as in attitude:,EK BAAR PHIR,
Like when he was tying astha's blouse dori shlok was fully attracted and lost in astha but his attraction and desire for her today had acceptance and a genuinity and longing , whereas before he didn't accept his attraction and used to ignore it by scolding or going away from her.
Today he accepted astha's suggestion of wearing a coat without any argument because he was humbled by her love towards him,
Today the shlok agnihotri even said sorry to astha giving her respect whereas before he never ever gave her respect because she was a possesion to him,
Today kalindi and shlok both were ready to forget the past(where there was complete bitternes as both shlok was mistaken to send avadoot to jail and kalindi sent shlok to jail), and bonded so much over sharing of food , a life saver, as in a sharing of astha but with love for her ,where as before they were enemies for the possession of astha and fought like hell without giving astha feelings a thought, and both came to an understanding about looking after and supporting astha, when kalindi apologised to shlok and in a sense gave responsibility of astha's wellbeing to shlok.
Today I felt that shlok must have felt the difference of the coldness and restricted nature of agnihotri family , who were never happy and the warmth and genuine love of the kirloskars who made themselves happy.
Shlok now has astha who loves him unconditionally and his conditional love will slowly become the same for astha but in the meantime he was embarrassed by kalindi's and ajju's hint for grandchildren and gave astha the shlok agnihotri look again, saying is this where you learned to embarras people too.
Now hope jyoti also finds someone ASAP who will love her unconditionally too, looks like sid is a prospect, even if he's the same to her after coming to know the truth of her pregnancy and still stand by her side against the agnihotri family who might target him in future.
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