its more like two inexperienced lonely people find someone finally. so i think the plot is valid, not too lovey dovey and neutral, and you know the ml somehow belives consummating the marriage wouldve made it truly a valid marriage, maybe its in their tradition on what he grown to know, and given the situation that of the clan wars and attempted assasination to him,,he couldve killed him instead and go worse with torture given its a possible assasin purpose only so the rape kinda is somehow valid if he was tryna balance two and two to not start a war
Exactly my thoughts. Mid the story, they showed us ML's thoughts and their first night on how he had to do it to consummate the wedding. Its evident that the wolfie father is willing to kill the fox if the marriage is not successful. Tho rape is still rape but i realized the mangaka did not put it in there just because they could. Still kind of a harsh culture they live in, the story revolves and reflects the sternness of those old traditions.
No one mentioned the rape at the start of the story and also the extra had dub-con as well. I'm thinking that the creator has a thing for semes being forceful :/ Also the story to be lacked emotion and warmth. It could've been more fleshed out, more focused on the emotions, the plotlines and really everything. ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ