radhika is unable to get married to rohan after all. a fire starts and rohan gets badly burned, though radhika is saved. dev meets radhika in the hospital and asks her what caused the fire. she tells him that rohan knows that she loves someone else; dev gets angry at this and tells her he hates her. radhika decides to get into their house as the "choti bahu" and wife of dev without telling anyone so she can gain dev's trust back.