The servant x master turned romance never really come across romantic realistically. Either there’s a significant power imbalance or the servant is really only going along with the demands or whims of the master because they’ve been conditioned to or see it as a duty to make their master “happy” and if that happiness is coveting their servant then it’s just an add on expected duty. You don’t really know for certain if the servant ever had a choice or they’ve convinced themselves they considered their ability to choose in its entirety with the result being the master as priority and meaning of self worth.
The servant x master turned romance never really come across romantic realistically. Either there’s a significant power imbalance or the servant is really only going along with the demands or whims of the master because they’ve been conditioned to or see it as a duty to make their master “happy” and if that happiness is coveting their servant then it’s just an add on expected duty. You don’t really know for certain if the servant ever had a choice or they’ve convinced themselves they considered their ability to choose in its entirety with the result being the master as priority and meaning of self worth.