Mom's Best Friend, Drop the Act—Your Perfect Image Just Shattered

Why chase girls your age when you could have a woman who knows exactly what she wants? Li Zhiyan learned this lesson the hard way—strung along by his high school crush, humiliated at graduation, the butt of every joke. But fate gives him a second chance: reborn in 2010, moments before his public rejection, he spots her. Aunt Gu Wanzhou, his mother's elegant 41-year-old best friend—poised, thoughtful, radiating a warmth no teenager could match. This time, Li Zhiyan won't play the fool. In front of his stunned classmates, he hands her the roses meant for another. "Aunt Gu, I've liked you for a l…