3: Do you know Oedipus?

"Aunt Gu, I'm not kidding."

"I've liked you ever since the day you came to the parent-teacher conference."

"That's why I used the excuse of wanting to pursue Yu Sisi to get close to you."

"Please give me a chance."

Li Zhiyan's voice was very serious; having lived two lives, he was no longer afraid of awkwardness.

As long as he wasn't awkward, everyone around him would feel awkward too!

Compared to fifty thousand yuan, what was awkwardness? He'd kneel for fifty thousand yuan if it meant getting it for free.

His best friend, Li Shiyu, had an urge to kneel before Li Zhiyan.

Li Zhiyan had gone crazy!

Confessing to the school belle's mother at a class reunion, and persisting even when the other party offered an out—what an idol!

Li Zhiyan's words made Yu Sisi increasingly embarrassed; everything she had just said seemed to boomerang back, accurately hitting her.

After Li Zhiyan confessed to her again,

Gu Wanzhou knew that the situation wouldn't be so easy to resolve.

"Guaiguai, come with Auntie. Auntie will have a good talk with you."

With that, Gu Wanzhou took Li Zhiyan's hand and walked towards her Benz.

All of this was within Li Zhiyan's expectations. Gu Wanzhou, already 41, naturally wouldn't reject him publicly like Yu Sisi, making him lose face and become a laughingstock for many years to come.

Mature women generally have deep life experience, are more caring, consider others' feelings, and are not competitive.

These are things young girls lack. After being reborn, Li Zhiyan found himself increasingly drawn to mature women.

"Guaiguai, get in the car."

"Auntie will take you for some tea."

Looking at this Benz E with the standing emblem, released just last year, his past memories became clearer. Aunt Gu was indeed very wealthy. She ran a company in Wan City and held a high position, so she had a strong aura that inexplicably gave Li Zhiyan a sense of security.

Why hadn't he pursued Gu Wanzhou in his previous life?

Perhaps back then, he hadn't noticed the charm of mature women, nor did he have the courage.

If he hadn't been reborn and learned that money was more important than face, he would never have had the courage to confess to Gu Wanzhou directly.

After the car drove away, the classmates all began discussing Li Zhiyan.

Yu Sisi's expression was extremely grim. Thinking about the words she hadn't finished earlier, she felt even worse. Looking at the strange gazes of her classmates around her, she stomped her foot and ran off. She simply couldn't stay at this class reunion any longer.

Liu Yaolong's face was also very unpleasant. He had wanted to see this annoying guy make a fool of himself.

And Liu Zifeng felt like he had swallowed a fly, all his sarcastic remarks stuck in his stomach.

The teacher's wife was somewhat surprised. This kid, he actually liked a woman twenty years older than him?

...

On the way, Li Zhiyan tried to open the system.

Indeed, in his mind, Li Zhiyan saw the interface indicating that the system mission was complete.

"Mission complete."

"Funding source arranging..."

"Because you usually used your spare time to study programming."

"So you have achieved some success in computer programming."

"You helped President Liu of Liuyun Company solve the problem of their internal system freezing, so you received a bonus of fifty thousand yuan."

"Please go to Private Room 999 at Xinyuan Hotel tomorrow evening to collect the fifty thousand yuan payment."

"Private room scene: 12 people."

"Gu Wanzhou, Liu Zifeng, Yu Lili, Rao Shiyun, Liu Yan..."

"As business partners, 12 people are dining here."

"Note: Computer programming skills are being learned."

Li Zhiyan cursed the system as trash. Shouldn't the money be directly deposited into his bank account, and in a way that no one could trace?

Moreover, the system panel was very simple, and it didn't issue any follow-up missions.

However, having a system, Li Zhiyan was quite satisfied.

It wasn't until the car arrived at Qiuju Teahouse that Li Zhiyan's thoughts were pulled back.

"Guaiguai, let's go up and talk."

Looking at the troubled youth beside her, Gu Wanzhou decided to help this child solve his psychological problems!

Liking a woman 23 years older than him was not normal.

Perhaps it was an Oedipus complex; psychologically speaking, it was unhealthy.

"One private room, a pot of green tea."

Upon entering the private room, Li Zhiyan also recalled how popular teahouses were in that era.

No other reason than that it was a good place for... dates.

Selling tea didn't make much money, but the room fee of twenty-something yuan was very cheap, and no ID registration was required.

Many people who didn't want to go to a hotel would come here to simply resolve things.

Three or four years later, teahouses slowly began to decline in Wan City.

And those people all opted for hourly rooms in hotels.

The two sat in the room, both silent.

It wasn't until the green tea was served and the waitress left the room that Gu Wanzhou slowly spoke.

"Guaiguai, when did you start liking Auntie?"

Looking at the ordinary Li Zhiyan in front of her,

Gu Wanzhou felt that when she was younger, she wouldn't have looked at Li Zhiyan at all, but now that she was over 40,

she looked at Li Zhiyan as if he were her junior, and so she wanted to pull him out of his mistaken thoughts.

"From the first time I saw you."

Li Zhiyan picked up the green tea and said with utmost seriousness. Looking at Gu Wanzhou's beautiful legs encased in flesh-toned stockings, he felt more and more that Aunt Gu was even more charming than those young girls!

"Li Zhiyan, this isn't right. Auntie is already 41 years old."

"And you are only 18 now. We are a full 23 years apart in age. Such an age gap shouldn't lead to such feelings of liking."

Li Zhiyan said without backing down, "But, Aunt Gu."

"Aren't many rich men in this society looking for 18-year-old girls? Their age difference is also ten or twenty years, so why can they, and I can't like Aunt Gu?"

Li Zhiyan's words left Gu Wanzhou somewhat speechless; for a moment, she didn't know how to respond.

And the way Li Zhiyan talked to her, so logically and reasonably, inexplicably filled her heart with a sense of admiration.

At 18, he could confess to her in public, and he didn't back down at all when she lectured him.

His mindset was truly extraordinary.

For a moment, she didn't know how to educate Li Zhiyan. Was it wrong for him to like her?

It didn't seem wrong at all.

She was a divorced woman, free both legally and morally, and while Li Zhiyan was only 18, he was also an adult man.

It seemed there was no aspect from which one could say that his liking her was a mistake.

"Li Zhiyan, do you know about the Oedipus complex?"

At this point, Gu Wanzhou still wanted to correct Li Zhiyan's thinking. She felt that Li Zhiyan should like girls his own age.