Ah yes, let's outright rebel against the single most powerful person in the country without a plan or even a solid backing. Fighting against someone even more powerful than the king himself with maybe a handful of people while she's got a majority of the ruling class under her thumb.
That should go wonderfully.
Exactly, I want the drama. Make it messy, make everyone cry. Make Eti go actually rogue, and perhaps the Empress will really be faced with the facts, that she made her own child miserable because of petty greed. I want to see whether she'd be capable of actually caring once inevitably faced with the consequences of her own actions.
I'm hoping this'll be a turning point for MC's and the Empress' relationship. MC has been side-eyeing his mom this whole time without any proper confrontation... Or really any major moves to try and shift the tide in his favor. Either Eti will straight up collapse bc his mom fucked up his liver with her dumbass trait-hiding drugs or he'll reveal his true feelings of disgust. Anway, it better get ugly bc I'm starting to argee with most comments here, that this is coming out to be a whole nothing burger.