tbf it's not meant to be accurate and there needs to be an element of control in their relationship simply because of how unblanced their power is.
What I mean is that the MC is obviously an abuse victim who is thinks she needs to please her authority figure. In this case the duke (although he didn't willingly take on that role). Meanwhile the duke, without the maid telling him, would have assumed their had a perfectly harmonious marriage and treated her as such.
which theoretically speaken sounds nice but for her to go from "despised and negelected wife" to "Dukes appel of his eyes" would not only put her out of her comfort zone, she would constantly panik that her "authority figure" would be displeased with her as wife and take things aways from her, like the support system she build up with the servants or even physicallly abuse her. it get's worse if we add the insecurities of "what happens when he get's his memories back" and "Am I living a false life/ do I deserve this" to the mix.
Their relationship would be utterly toxic because she would mentally ruin herself while he would/could be oblivious to what he needs to do.
The servants being a support system for the duchess while also working as a control system for the duke is the best solution, since she wouldn't feel as weird about being taken care of by people whose literal job is taking care of her. People who are on "equal" status with her would only make her uncomfortable (see dukle)
hoped that made sense ^^
It has a nice plot and all
But most of time they always fail to deliver accuracy
In what world , time and place will a servant rebuke their master ?
She literally yelled at her boss
And her eyes and the way she was speaking was just so rude
The lack of accuracy bstween social hierarchy is never well portray in mangas.
Plus no master speaks to servant like that at that time.
Been in my job for 3 years and I will never dare talk to my boss that way.