As I don't like the actress who plays Rukmini, I can't feel sorry for the character, but OMG
It's an insult to both women, and specifically to Radha.
You must explain something to me.
1: Why Krishna married Radha (even this was a dream for her), she remains his wife. He brought her to his town so that she could play teacher to his wife!
2: He acts as if she doesn't exist. Since Radha's arrival we've only seen them face to face two or three times, otherwise it's the same speech (they're always together so they don't need to see each other), so basically she's an extra in your game of "how can I get Rukmini to love me selflessly"?!
Krishna remains the manipulator we've known since the beginning. The part where Radha burns her throat. Besides making Rukmini believe that it's because she treated her feet that the burns went away, he didn't even go to see Radha once.
I feel like I'm looking at a bad joke.
When Radha married Ayan, Krishna followed her everywhere saying "being married doesn't mean that it's the end of love" so he stuck to her worse than gum. Radha put her head on his shoulder without any worry, here we can see the distance that is put forward. Is it because Krishna has become a prince? In their dreams or the moments they meet in the forest, there's no distance, because it's just a mirage...
On the other hand, one just has the impression that Rukmini is playing Radha, when at first she that marriage led to love for Sudevi's wedding.
I don't even know what he's trying to show anymore, they're trying to keep the RadhaKrishn show, but it's a lost cause. Already the link that makes RadhaKrishn I find it's not the same anymore!
When Krishna asked Radha and Rukmini how he should treat them, they both answered in the same way, one as husband and the other as friend. And he spends his time granting their wishes, or to be more precise, taking Rukmini's side while saying that he follows Radha's directions ...
So when he told Radha that Ayan should not be her centre, but that she should know how to make her own decisions, here we see that he is doing exactly the same thing, he is not contradicting Rukmini, he is just trying to tell her not like that, but when she is stubborn, he accepts what she asks...
Anyway, it's getting worse and worse...