His plan was to make her a figurehead of her own company, it's not something Miorine just imagined. She would in theory control the operations, but in practice Shaddiq and his father would be making all the final calls as the parent company.

Their history was trying to sneak off together and create an independent venture before their fathers both stopped them.

Had he left his father and joined them, Miorine probably would have welcomed him with open arms. But we can see how much of a struggle that is in this setting, even for Guel who has been formally abandoned by his own father.