Port forward VPN for Utorrent Server

I’m trying to build a Utorrent Server (Ubuntu VM), so I can start a torrent locally on my server.

For somewhat obvious reasons I wanted my VPN to automatically start with a kill switch enabled on nordvpn.

Problem, with the VPN on it blocks the Utorrent server from requests from local hosts on my network. So how can I allow local packets with my VPN enabled?

Thanks for the help!

But the VPN