@Rezna holy god is that true I DIDNT KNOW I THOUGHT HE WAS A SLAVE/someone from the forton household but i was not expecting that nine was part of the forton family
@ninetailgumiho ... uh, wat? Yuri getting kidnapped by the villain is literally being a damsel-in-distress.
In a story about examining toxic masculinity in romance novels it'd also make sense to look at the role of female characters in the same, and this is one such instance where this could have been done (of course there's also the possibility that Yuri ends up freeing herself, but I doubt it).
That "the story can't change" is a weak excuse; it clearly can in many other ways. It's just the writer wanting the protagonist going off to rescue a love interest ... which is exactly the kind of trope this is supposed to deconstruct. So, yeah, this wasn't that amazingly done.
Because I just binged this I still freshly recall Fortron is a surname all werewolves use. And the emperor treats Fortrons/werewolves as nobility. So the fact he's full name is Nine Fortron is not new or important.
What's important though is why he reacted that way to the news of his "rival" being kidnapped? Or is it because of the identity of the kidnapper?