Virat doesn't love Sai, infact Virat was never in love with Sai. There I said it.
As the great IPS officer Virat Chavan once said, "Jab do log milte hai toh ek dusre ke liye bohot kuch mehsoos karte hai" That is what happened. Since he was forced into this marriage just after his true love became adhura, he started settling with Sai, because divorce is a word Chavans don't know/haven't heard except when it is about taunting Shivani. Naturally Virat too thought "Now I am married to her so I have no other choice, let me be in love with her"
I thought Samrat runs away from problems, but as it seems it runs in the Chavan gene pool. When Samr-akhi got married Virat wanted to go to Gadchiroli (Please don't even say it was only for Sai, he wanted to go away too, it was evident) Now his 'love' isn't being reciprocated so he is again gonna run away. I mean who needs clear conversations and honest confessions and clarification of the relationship stands when we can just deceive our partner into going for a trip and when they react become angry and start our vengeance trip starting with running away or locking them up in a room.
Virat, who never had a clear cut dialogue of "I don't love Pakhi, not just because she is my VAHINI and you are my zimmedari, but because I'm in love with you, for a long time, and I hope you feel the same for me" or even just "Our relationship is not just a zimmedari to me Sai, because I love you, Sai, and I would like to have a proper husband wife relationship with you." expects that Sai would just naturally understand him and his 'love'. It's not like deciphering human emotions is a difficult task right, especially when you are doing the opposite actions, is it now?
The problem is he expects Sai to be a wife after saying (and not clarifying) that they can never be husband wife. After instilling insecurities he decides that now he wants to be a husband, after previously deciding he wants to be just a guardian.
A relationship can never ever work if any one person becomes bff with their ex and 24x7 is living with them. I might come across narrowminded and it's honestly fine. Also, I'm pretty sure he is still in love with Pakhi, because only in love we don't mistakes/bad qualities in the other person.
I should ask PP for the chai recipe, then make my crush drink it, maybe he'll also start my gungaan..