I like how the authordidnt beautify the female lead and inteadshowed the process of how she thinned and how she cleared the spot on her face

I like how the ML isnt the usual overbearing president that is otherworldly handsome, although he is handsome but it didn'tover shadowed his character

ML is a scarred face tough looking guy whose ex ARMY that once jailed cuz misunderstanding and miscommunication for killing a rapist. He also the owner of the largest Security Company in the country (when his kids became adult, the company already became No.1 in the world with it's member were all ex soldier, some were ex-soldier who disability)

MC kids were adorable. The eldest daughter was obedient and serious girl, the younger son was.... well, just a baby that need to coaxing (and threated cuz often making MC headache in her early periode of moving + in diet program). In the end he became a soldier in his dad old camp cuz of broken heart. The youngest son whose born wit ML are in the end of story became a HIpHOP dancer idol (at this time very likely already in 2010's era).

MC business were : a shop which selling woman cloth targeted to mid-hi end customers (give away to her Subs later cuz she was way too buzy) ; a half share of world class reknown underwear company (later inherited to her daughter) ; 60-70% share of first world smartphone maker company (as CEO, later inherited to broken heart son after he back from enlisted in army).

• The above mentioned cultural perspective. Worth a look just for that.
• The MC would be overly lucky in her business ventures for the real world, but is down right reasonable for a webfic, and not a Mary Sue or super powered MC. She has set backs, and things go wrong for others she helps.
• Her transformation to "pretty" is realistic and takes time (she spends over a year of extreme dieting and exercise to lose 60lbs and endures expensive, painful laser treatments for her "dalmation" blotchy skin).
• She hits upon her multi-million dollar idea a bit on accident, and it's a non-flashy market (basically long-johns, winter underwear).
• She is fond of the children who belonged to the original owner, but not excessively or in a creepy or sappy way. The story is not about them acting cutesy together. Plus the kids accurately come across as children of their stated ages. Not once did I think "why is the 7 year old acting 2? The author must not know any children."
• She has slightly more Western-ideal morality than is typical. She will step in occasionally because it's the 'right thing to do' without thought of benefit, she treats her workers well, is very into helping other women. She is on board with cutting off scumbag relatives, which is refreshing when compared with other novels where the MC sticks with family come hell or high water, solely because they are family. This makes her more appealing to Western readers than normal.
• The ML is atypical, having a facial deformity and a considerate, sensitive personality. He has less money than her and he does not mind that she has children.
  
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• I do not give one flipping F*** how much things cost. Everyone is obsessed with cost and food.
  Meat and money seem to be the primary motivations of nearly all Chinese novels, same here. There are just lists and lists of she spent $x on a building, negotiated down from $y, and $z, $q, and $r are all being spent on the super fancy renovations and furnishings, and $s was offered as a "thank you" bribe to the agent, and $t---I DO NOT CARE. I DO NOT CARE. I DO NOT CARE.
• It is really, really long.
• The endless face-giving and saving exchanges with the requisite gifts are exhausting and make you wonder if poor people in China never, ever have anything nice every happen to them, because they can't afford to pay for it. I have no doubt that if the MC wasn't a millionaire splashing out money and tips and presents like free air, she would immediately find she has no more friends.
• MC can be fairly hypocritical at times, despite being mostly modern and feminist. Like, she is a dumpy, ugly, divorcee with 2 kids, who regularly takes off at 4pm to get them from school. Yet, she refuses to hire other single moms or ugly women, since they won't want to work the ridiculous 12 hour days she expects, or because she thinks ugly women can't sell clothes (she seems to do just fine). While she is definitely more generous with pay and benefits than the typical 90's employer, she most certainly is not for a modern one. Or there's a bit where she regrets stepping in to stop a child's kidnapping because of minor inconveniences to herself and resolves not to do so again in the future. Or she says haggling is tr*shy and doesn't allow it in her store, yet we have to read pages and pages of her haggling for stuff.
• Controversial, but I actually don't think her ex husband should get quite as much flack as he gets. He had about as much choice in marrying her as she did him, they didn't live together for the majority of their marriage, and, to be blunt, OG owner was not a lovable person. (she was unattractive, both physically and personality-wise, uneducated, unskilled, unkind, bought into the same sexist garbage as her parents and in laws, didn't care about her kids, was a crap mother, never tried to improve herself, etc.)
  • He was right to want a divorce and pretty generous in his original alimony offering (a house, all the cash, and more alimony/ child support a month than she later pays her shop manager in salary) since she had little to nothing to do with his business success.
  • Having an affair was bad, of course, but it feels like they had to retroactively shove in details that he was mean to her for refusing the divorce several chapters down the line because he wasn't seen as villainous enough.
  • OG may have killed herself, but that was her choice, he didn't push her into it, and the majority of the bad crap that happened later in the 'og book' happened because she had killed herself and wasn't there for her kids, (not that she was a good mom in any way, shape, or form. She was SUCH a crap mom.)
  • A shaming and some extra payout was warranted, yes, but he really didn't deserve to lose his life's work or for his unborn baby to die because he wanted a wife who wasn't a hideous sad sack with leach relatives who keep begging him for hand outs.
    • Now his relatives, whom she actually lived with and who mentally tortured her for a decade and mistreated her daughter? And her relatives, who turned her into that sad sack of worthless? Both of them deserve the full wall of hell to fall on them like the ocean.
• They couldn't have left her at average/ normal, but went the full "she's beautiful now!" route, which is annoying (though, it did take 300+ chapters to get there), nor could they leave the ML as poor and underprivileged. Suddenly, he's got sh*t tons of money and his own, very prestigious, company. Really?
  
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On a shared taxi ride MC meets ML who has a big scar on his face from his time as a soldier and has spent time in jail for killing someone. He tried to save a woman from being dragged in a car and one of the men he fought against died. Since the woman did not come to his defense he was convicted. ML sets up a security company after he got out of jail and hired his former army friends in the company. His company is quite succesful.

When MC takes a train ride back from a trip to buy clothes she sees a couple with a child they have kidnapped. She tells the police and the couple is captured. The child turns out to be the son of a former army mate of ML. He protects and follows MC for a while until their accomplices are captured.

There is a lot of fighting when buying clothes. Shop owners all do their best to get the best clothes.

When a parent of a classmate of her son sees that MC's clothes store is succesful she decides to start a clothes store as well and askes for her help. However she does not listen to MC's advice (goes along when clients try to lower the price, hires help that is not fit, holds actions regularly, etc), so her store becomes quite mediocre. Though she herself thinks she is very succesful.

MC gets a wealthy friend who proposes to start a clothes line in China. She goes along and this later becomes the biggest en most well-known luxury clothes chain in China and even becomes well-known in the rest of the world.

Another parent of her son's classmate also decides to start a clothes store and this friend does listen to MC's advice and this becomes a pretty succesful store.

ML proposes and they hold a big wedding at sea, so her family will not find out where she lives and she can invite everyone at once.

-the first employee of MC's clothes store falls in love with the guy who designed and decorated the store. She later becomes 50% owner of the store, when MC becomes too busy with her company.

-the parents of second employee try to force her to marry a man she does not like for money. She decides to follow MC's example and moves to another town where they can not find her. She later becomes a teamleader of MC's company in that town.

-the brother of 2nd employee sees that the parents have 30.000 in cash when his sister looks for her credentials and gives this to the girl whom he wants to marry so she can buy a house. When she has the house in her name she denies ever receiving the money and marries someone else. I don't understand why women have to leave town to avoid problems family can cause, but they don't cause trouble for this girl.

-The wealthy partner of MC gets a suitor, she does not like. He kidnaps her and intends to commit su*cide with her. He is mentally ill. Luckily MC and ML find her in time. She never remarries (is divorced).

-A clothes store owner of another town helped MC in the beginning by showing her the ropes. The ex-husband causes trouble for her because he wants money which causes her store to decline. She decides to sell the store and move to another town and start a franchise store of MC's company with help from MC.

-the parents of MC try all kinds of things to find out from her cousin, whom she keeps in contact with, where MC lives to get her money. At a certain point they even suspect that he killed her and took her money and turn him in to the police. Of course he is proven innocent. To prevent her parents from continuing with their antics MC pays 50.000 to build a road to their town so the town leader will keep them in check and promises them a certain monthly allowance.

-the cousin of MC was a gang leader in the beginning. After advice from MC he turns legit and starts a company and becomes quite wealthy. He later marries.

-The ex-husband marries his pregnant girlfriend, but she miscarries and can never have children again. He divorces her a year later when he gets another woman pregnant. He marries the ex-wife of his partner who is 10 years older after his partner dies. His 2nd ex arranges for his girlfriend to miscarry and for him to lose his d*ck. MC sees in a dream how she would have killed her and her children if things had gone according to the novel. She is later arrested by the police under suspicion of mu*der.

-MC has another dream of her first life and sees how she died and her parents and brother grief for her. She appears in a deam to her parents and tells them she has a new life and is happy.

-The sister of MC also follows MC's example and divorces her husband and moves with her 2 children to the same town as MC with MC's help. She is illiterate. MC helps her start a small shop near a school selling school utilities.

MC and ML are very happy together. They have 3 huge companies together and decide to leave each of their children 1 company.

Her daughter is running the clothes empire with help from her mother's friend. She is set to inherit the 50% share of her mother later. She will probably also inherit the rest of her mother's partner later, because the partner only has an autistic child who can not take care of herself.

Her son is rejected by his first love and becomes depressed. After that ML throws him in the army for 2 years. When he comes back he goes to college and falls in love with a girl who also studies there and marries her. She is from a normal family. He is set to later inherit a phone company MC started which has become huge.

Her youngest son between MC and ML is set to inherit his father's company but is not interested in it at all. He wants to join the entertainment industry.

The main character (mc) transmigrated into a novel she finished reading as the wife of a somewhat rich but scum cheating husband. Used her intelligence and connections to obtain most of the money & property shared between their husband and wife, then happily divorced. MC took her two young children and started over in another city. Successfully started a business, became a billionaire, then met a handsome, mature, and caring veteran to be her husband.