If you love business world/econ/rags-to-riches, and don't mind BL, there's a much better story that I recommend: [Epiphanies of Rebirth].

One very subtle issue is still the matter of CN culture/subtext in the story. While the author tries very hard to present a strong female MC, all of her actions are still written as being under the purview of the ML. It's stated several times that her choice to break away to stand on her own was 'allowed' or humored by the ML due to his love for her. The MC's brother is the same. In the end, the author writes that the MC feels more comfortable supporting the efforts of the ML instead of being at her own company. Of course, there's nothing 'weak' about supporting the person you love. However, this is a consistent theme in most C-novels and this author's stories. The female MC once again is only allowed to be strong enough or independent enough to suit the male characters protecting her. She will never be written to outshine them or take up a bigger share of any life burden because of her gender.

Despite this, it's still one of the better novels out there with a female MC that has more character and is written better than many others. (Kind of a sad state, tbh.)

• When I read that both FL and ML's parent are in the same nursing home, I expect they meet several time there and strengthen their bond. But they only met once there (and it's not even in the nursing home but rather in the bus).
• There is no mention about FL's mother again since the encounter of ML and FL in the bus until suddenly she's mentioned again briefly in the epilogue. And there is no further explanation about FL's family conflict that make her brother doesn't wanna talk to their mother again. I don't why the author bothers to make her character in the first place.
• FL is clearly interested on ML first and she even gave her phone number to him after their first meeting. So I'm confused why she's playing hard to get when ML confessed his feeling for her.
• In the end of the story, the author suddenly introduces a new character who is potentially become Lin Mochen's love interest. But that's it. There is no continuation about them or even their back story. It's best if the author doesn't make her character at all in the first place.

The only part that made me really frustrated was when MC gave ML the controlling share of her company. Like, one step forward for romance, one huge leap backwards for feminism. Oh well.

Gu Yanzhe. This motherf*cker really deceived me. I really thought he betrayed Li Zhecheng. Really. I kept on thinking about the possible reasons and no matter how much I think about it, I really didn't think of his character as a shallow as that. That's why I got so disappointed. FORTUNATELY IT WAS ALL A PLAN. I lowkey like him.

Ning Weikai. Ghad. This guy. He's smart and all, okay? I get it. But cheating... Up until now I am still confused and unconvinced with his feelings for his wife. Does he really love her? Even before the cheating happened, this question still popped in my mind. But then his assistant states it like he's so in love with her. And he has also stated it! He treated her like a treasure. His wife is unreliable and insensitive towards him. That's the top reason why he got lonely. At the time when he felt so low and just wanted silence in her arms, instead of giving it to him, she even probed about her family's position. I actually felt brokenhearted for him that time. He felt down and lonely. Then he met this stranger who saw through him and made him wonder how she did it when his wife couldn't? He didn't touch her but still... I feel complicated about him. The ending about him was also vague. Were they able to fix their marriage? I want to know!

Lin Mochen. I was really looking forward about him. He's romance was slightly mentioned around the time Lin Qian came over for New Year's. Like he lost someone or something like that. I just found out that he has actually a novel. Looking forward to it!

She went from not wanting to have a workplace relationship and setting him aside to feeling touched when he dropped everything to fly to the other side of the world to see her.... to maybe a couple of days later when she's all "we love each other OKAY!?" I might have liked her thought process better before she realized her feelings. I did appreciate the talk they had about her fears after the Aito feint.

(but is she ever really apart when a lot of her resources were from him?)

especially how she reacts with every move he makes, like, when she first figure out his counter attack only when its about to end so she's shock and scared that she knows nothing about him in reality, which makes her taken aback about starting their relationship. Then there's that conversation when she thought his plan is to abandoned theor brand (?), she questions him if someday he will abandoned her too, which gaves the novel a touch that her feeling is raw and real.