Honey___'s feed

Can a good analyzer or something tell me what they think?
The empress and concubine are at odds right now.
The emperor appears to be comfortable enough to suggest the empress take up a new hobby yet supports the concubines expansion of power? What the hell is he even doing, had a perfectly good wife and son yet cuddled up with some other woman that resulted in her spoiling him and essentially ruining him enough that HE became the seed of doom for the empire