Oh, I agree. Servants doing dogeza is also eye-rolling, lol.
However, to be fair, I don't think western novels of similar genre are any more accurate, haha.
Oh yeah, these historic Western fantasy manhwa always have servants that are just wilding out committing all sorts of abuse against the FL all while her family somehow doesn't care. In reality, any disrespect to your family member, especially from a servant, is an insult against your entire family.
Nobility are nothing without honor. In all nobility, Western and Eastern, even if you hate your family member you will still demand everyone treat them with honor because if they dishonor them they dishonor you. In this manhwa, both the king and the Grand Duke would be demanding all of these servants be put to death. It wouldn't even be a demand, they would just do it and everyone would agree they did the right thing.
I know the maid slapping trope is very unpopular but there wouldn't be any maid slapping. They would just be maid hangings.
I am endlessly frustrated by the Western setting of this manhwa. If you know anything about history Western kings were kept in check by their courts. There is no way that any Noble would support a king who constantly, maliciously, and irrationally attacked other noble families... Because the king who would do that to other nobles would do it to them.
There are real world examples of this. Look at Richard II and he didn't publicly humiliate his nobles, he just didn't pay enough attention to them.
I know it's fantasy, I know. I just hate that these authors always use Western historic settings and then don't understand how interesting and nuanced these settings were.
... I don't know why I'm complaining about this when I was reading another manhwa and the author had a police officer character say that they had Ohio surrounded. Ohio, a state that's about the same size as the entire country of South Korea, surrounded by the police with all the ways in and out covered by roadblocks lol.
I have to stop expecting any sort of understanding about the settings these stories are in.