She had seen through the cloying machinations of Payal. She's the one who has said that Mihir would return. What she didn't specify is that the band-baaja would be playing for Mihir's wife's wedding. There's more schmaltz here than a whole festival of Italian operas. The orgasmic reunion was undertaken to the frenzied chants of Ram Sita Ram to remind us that marriages are made in heaven.
Problems start when serial writers get to work on marriages.
These are questions that the mythological structure of the storytelling cannot conceal effectually. The Ram-Sita parallels keep creeping up on us. Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki is busy doing a portable avatar of Sooraj Barjatya's Hum Saath Saath Hain which in turn was inspired by the Ramayan. The Kaikeyi-like mother has packed off her elder son and bahu to banwas. And now Mandodri Chaya is about to get her comeuppance.