Look at the story from this angle too: you’re forced by your family to marry the daughter of a family wealthier than yours, but she turns up at your door as if to give alms, saying, ‘I’m breaking the engagement here’s your compensation.’ Do you think a family has any chance of living a normal life after something like that in a place where power is seen as everything?
The issues I’m trying to describe could have been resolved normally, but the problem with this series is that if something happens, one side has to die. If the MC’s blonde maid hadn’t turned up, the girl with pink hair would have died; but because she did turn up even though she had almost nothing to do with the matter, and was simply trying to protect the boy she loved the other girl and her family died. To cut a long story short, there’s a shambolic logic to these series: if you don’t kill those who oppose you, you can’t survive. Because a family decision that neither side accepted wasn’t properly managed, how many people have died and will continue to die?