I like this Anjali. She is very perceptive and wise. She seems to have dealt better with life's curveballs than Khushi.
Khushi.... now I understand it is difficult to forget your first crush/ love whatever it was. But I also think It is unfair not to give yourself a chance to try to be happy when life puts you in a direction different than what you had planned. She keeps giving herself a pep talk now and then, but the effort seems missing.
It is actually quite disheartening to see this Arnav, where he is willingly becoming a puppet in wrong hands. I think we have always read stories where Arnav is the shrewd businessman who knows every person that comes in contact with him inside out, who never let's anyone take advantage of him, except when it is his family, who is so attuned to his wife's moods that he understands her the best.
This Arnav is completely different. He is vulnerable, so unaware of the evil around him, so against his father and brother, so unattuned to Khushi's state of mind, he is completely........ human. Something we are not used to see. Sure we will get used to him as the story progresses.
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