He Thinks Everyone Is Trying to Steal His Girl

[Love rivals + competing men + dark yandere + one-sided crushes + male leads with no prior sexual experience + fictional setting]

As the sole heir to the Shen family, one of the Empire's seven dukedoms, she was born with everything at her fingertips. A life of effortless luxury had left her heart untouched, and love was nothing more to her than an inconsequential shackle.

Even the arranged marriage decided upon when they were children failed to stir the slightest ripple in her heart.

Her fiancé, Gu Yanzhi, was the heir to a hereditary marquisate. Handsome and reserved, he had always indulged her and given way to her in everything.

But Shen Zhiyi's entire assessment of him amounted to one cool remark: "He's a decent person, and he's always been quite nice to me."

That casual word, "nice," chilled Gu Yanzhi's heart.

No one knew that beneath his gentle exterior lay a possessiveness so obsessive it was almost pathological.

He held the marriage contract in his hands, content to wait patiently for her to turn back to him, no matter how many years it took. He wasn't in any hurry.

It was the other noble heirs in their circle who couldn't wait, all coveting her.

Everyone desired her, yet they were all wary of Gu Yanzhi, who stood between them and her.

He seemed mild-mannered, but had already secretly built a cage, shutting out every man who wanted her.

Their hearts burned with jealousy. Unwilling to let a marriage contract decide who would win, they stepped forward to court her and confess their feelings, while secretly driving a wedge between her and Gu Yanzhi, hoping to steal his girl away.

Everyone was going mad for her, while she alone remained unmoved.

In a shadowy corner, dark, obsessive thoughts churned in Gu Yanzhi's eyes. His fingers slowly clenched, his gaze as gloomy as the night.

Staring at her figure, he whispered, consumed by an obsession that ate away at his soul: "Zhiyi, when will your eyes hold only me?"

Every one of them longed for her love to fall upon them.