'Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai' opens with Disha sensing a storm coming and deciding she should leave. She tells Manisha that if she finds Abhira on the road, she will take her along. Aryan offers to drop her. Madhav worries about Abhira.
Vidya tells him to worry about
Arman and Myra instead.
Arman falls apart
Abhira bumps into Arman on the road and asks about Myra. Arman tells her Mukti confirmed Myra has reached the hostel safely. But the relief in his voice lasts only a moment. He tells Abhira that Myra is beyond angry, that she is pulling away from him, and that he does not know how to breathe without her. He asks Abhira to stop Myra from going, telling her he will not survive it. He calls out Myra's name into the storm. Abhira holds him and tells him to calm down. Arman says only someone who has lost a daughter can understand this pain. Abhira tells him quietly that no one understands it better than her, that nothing in the world eases it, and no amount of motivation helps when you are in the middle of it.
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Eight years of burning
Arman tells Abhira he has just realised he is drowning in something painful, but she has been doing it for eight years without Myra.
Abhira tells him she has been dying every day for eight years. She says it would have been better if she had burned in the fire or found some other end. She says she has been burning for eight years, and she does not want to burn anymore. Arman kisses her. Both of them are pulled into memories of everything they once had. They get close. Then Abhira pulls herself away and goes home.
Vidya draws the line, and Kaveri falls
Vidya is waiting and wastes no time. She tells Abhira to get out of the house, saying Kaveri is fine and her presence is only hurting Arman and Myra's relationship. Abhira goes to take Kaveri's blessing before leaving. Kaveri collapses. The Poddars panic. The doctor examines her and says she is mentally exhausted and needs the family's full support.
Kaveri's drama and a secret plan
Kaveri recovers enough to be put to bed, but when Tanya and Aryan come in with her medicine and ice cream, something shifts. Kaveri asks them both how her acting was. They praise her performance with barely concealed delight. It becomes clear that Kaveri staged the fall deliberately, and now the three of them, Kaveri, Tanya, and Aryan, are officially a team with one shared goal: to get Arman and Abhira back together. They agree that the two of them deserve happiness and that it is time to stop waiting for it to happen on its own.
Meanwhile, across the house, Vidya sits alone remembering Arman and Abhira's moments together, and something in her expression suggests that even she is no longer entirely sure she is on the right side of this fight.
Precap: Arman goes to Myra and asks where she disappeared from the hostel. Myra tells him she went to get something expensive for him and will reveal it at Aryan's sangeet. She tells Arman she has a demand. He worries about what it will be. Abhira tells him to fulfil whatever Myra asks. Arman says Myra might ask him to throw Abhira out. Abhira tells him he should allow it.