Spoiler
MC hatches a plan and even ropes in her grandfather in on it. More like, she says something along these lines, "So my cousin is eloping. Can you pretend not to know and be busy on this day?" Haha
For once, Lorraine takes matters into her own hands as she wholehearted accepts the plan. Avinox is more than happy to go with it too. Of course there's a few kinks to the plan but they do manage to leave in the end.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong but these incideynt also catapults MC and Perez to enter into an 'engagement' so that both of them won't be roped into whatever plans Empress has coz she got pissed.
Oh...to add
I think MC was a lil bit worried coz Lorraine doing this is literally cutting ties with Lombardi. She was potentially ostracizing herself because eloping was gonna put the family in a bad light. But, nah. Grandpa was all, 'She'll always be a Lombardi' which was a big deal. It was also great coz Lorraine knew her parents would disown her. But with Grandpa on her side (as well as the part of the family that was sane), she had very little to worry about.
lombardi family will pull away every resource that lombardi gave to the empire which caused the economy to collapse. lombardi is basically samsung family in korea. they hold the economy of the empire (▰˘◡˘▰)
How will they prevent Lorraine's marriage?