The Invincible Ugly Woman (Volume 3)

马尼尼Dec 2022

Rating 3.2
Word count
171K words
Chapters
78

Tags

Time Travel Fantasy Career PromotionUgly Duckling RiseCulinary ComebackContrast CharmButcher FamilyInspirationLight ReadingPeriod LifeTime Travel to 1970sSystem Binding

Summary

The descendant of an imperial chef, Xu Taotao, keeps her culinary skills hidden among ordinary folk—until she dies of overwork and is bound to the Dedication System, transmigrating into the 1970s as the famously ugly daughter of a pig slaughterer at the meat processing plant. To become beautiful, she has no choice but to keep grinding at work. With her outstanding cooking skills, she earns promotions and raises, and marries Professor Gu... pah!

"Ding dong, traded a braised meat recipe to become a temporary worker at the state-run restaurant, lit up one career point, returning the host's 'Snow Skin'! From now on, even a dark-skinned girl like you will be a fair-skinned little beauty!"

"Ding dong, successfully developed 'ham sausage' and promoted to deputy section chief of the Product Development Department, lit up five career points, returning 'Autumn Water Eyes'!"

"Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong..."

Watch an ugly girl turn beautiful, marry a professor, get promoted and raise her salary, and earn foreign exchange!

Editor's review

This volume continues the main arc of Xu Taotao, who transmigrates into the 1970s and binds a diligence system that trades work for the return of her looks, tightening the link between "monetizing cooking skills" and "climbing the career ladder" against the familiar backdrop of period life. Plot points such as trading a braised-pork recipe for a temp job and developing ham sausage to become deputy section chief stitch the system tasks into concrete settings—state-run restaurants, the meat-processing plant, product development—forming a clear growth chain with a strong sense of progress and payoff. The romance line, framed as the light-comedy goal of "marrying Professor Gu," advances alongside the career line; the pacing is brisk, conflict arises mainly from work problems and interpersonal friction, and the overall tone is light and stress-relieving. Suited to fragmented reading on the commute or before bed, especially for fans of period fiction, food elements, and system fiction who like to follow along. Note that this volume builds on the previous ones; character relationships and system rules were established earlier, so jumping straight in may leave the setup incompletely understood.

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Reading tips

  1. Read Volume 1 first to understand the system rules and relationships, then enter this volume's main line.
  2. Keep simple notes along the three lines of “task—promotion—appearance return” to clarify the growth rhythm.
  3. Suited to reading in segments during commutes or before bed; one or two task nodes per session is enough.
  4. When interested in food plots, pay attention to craft descriptions in development scenes such as braised meat and ham sausage.

Contents

  1. 版权信息
  2. 第一百五十八章 第一个产品火腿肠
  3. 第一百五十九章 有人抢她风头？
  4. 第一百六十章 姥姥来啦
  5. 第一百六十一章 老赵一家哭了
  6. 第一百六十二章 血统之争
  7. 第一百六十三章 老朱：吃席去！
  8. 第一百六十四章 吃货联盟
  9. 第一百六十五章 终于吃上了
  10. 第一百六十六章 许主任发威
  11. 第一百六十七章 身份怀疑
  12. 第一百六十八章 恋爱经验丰富的小许同志
  13. 第一百六十九章 钞能力
  14. 第一百七十章 送上门找虐
  15. 第一百七十一章 请多指教啊
  16. 第一百七十二章 打脸进行时
  17. 第一百七十三章 不带这么上赶着找死的
  18. 第一百七十四章 一战成名
  19. 第一百七十五章 第一个订单到手
  20. 第一百七十六章 万事俱备只欠东风
  21. 第一百七十七章 顾教授出事
  22. 第一百七十八章 看望
  23. 第一百七十九章 顾教授：我要表现
  24. 第一百八十章 不争气的顾教授
  25. 第一百八十一章 小狐狸大战抠门厂长
  26. 第一百八十二章 小妹，你别嫁人了
  27. 第一百八十三章 憨逼顾教授
  28. 第一百八十四章 儿啊，你要有妹妹了
  29. 第一百八十五章 大姐拒绝相看
  30. 第一百八十六章 三位研究员的身份
  31. 第一百八十七章 小许同志的脑子是被糊住了吗
  32. 第一百八十八章 你喜欢我，你早说啊
  33. 第一百八十九章 无私奉献小许师傅
  34. 第一百九十章 长城牌火腿肠诞生
  35. 第一百九十一章 火腿肠试吃
  36. 第一百九十二章 反应
  37. 第一百九十三章 订单，订单
  38. 第一百九十四章 跑订单拿提成
  39. 第一百九十五章 销售人才
  40. 第一百九十六章 人间惨淡许大光
  41. 第一百九十七章 吕副厂长：我要告状！
  42. 第一百九十八章 我，许桃桃，记仇
  43. 第一百九十九章 失宠？
  44. 第二百章 锦旗
  45. 第二百零一章 认干亲
  46. 第二百零二章 她就是您未来儿媳妇
  47. 第二百零三章 脸皮厚吃个够
  48. 第二百零四章 骚操作不断的况副厂长
  49. 第二百零五章 谈合作
  50. 第二百零六章 狼子野心
  51. 第二百零七章 拿下国营饭店订单
  52. 第二百零八章 都城交流会
  53. 第二百零九章 三傻投诚
  54. 第二百一十章 吕搅屎棍重出江湖
  55. 第二百一十一章 拱火
  56. 第二百一十二章 找郑主任合作
  57. 第二百一十三章 说服1
  58. 第二百一十四章 说服2
  59. 第二百一十五章 撞见大姐约会
  60. 第二百一十六章 卑微顾教授追妻漫漫
  61. 第二百一十七章 许二哥：我有对象了
  62. 第二百一十八章 合作愉快
  63. 第二百一十九章 拉郎配
  64. 第二百二十章 谈生意的一把好手
  65. 第二百二十一章 销售科科长人选
  66. 第二百二十二章 事情没那么简单
  67. 第二百二十三章 掌握古代十大暗器的统子
  68. 第二百二十四章 悲催的关小哥
  69. 第二百二十五章 干妈？干哥？
  70. 第二百二十六章 顾教授，露一手啊
  71. 第二百二十七章 苏妈妈的助攻
  72. 第二百二十八章 不甘心的小许同志
  73. 第二百二十九章 妹夫，汤汁泡饭要不？
  74. 第二百三十章 不公平，我也要摸
  75. 第二百三十一章 嘿，我这暴脾气
  76. 第二百三十二章 申请停职
  77. 第二百三十三章 众人反应
  78. 第二百三十四章 选人

FAQ

Can I read Volume 3 directly without having read Volume 1? You can, but this volume's relationships, system rules, and earlier task results all build on prior books; skipping directly may leave you with an incomplete understanding of setups such as “career points” and “appearance return.” It is best to at least learn how Xu Taotao transmigrated and bound the diligence system in Volume 1 before entering this volume.
Does the romance thread take up much of the book? According to the material, the main line is Xu Taotao using cooking skills to complete system tasks and rise within the meat-processing plant and state-run restaurant system, with the romance line woven in through the light-comedy goal of “marrying Professor Gu.” Overall it leans toward career growth and period life; romance is seasoning rather than the sole core.
Does the system setup make the story feel formulaic? The system's mechanism of “completing work trades, lighting up career points, returning looks” is indeed a common system-fiction framework. But this volume grounds tasks in concrete period settings such as braised-meat recipes, ham sausage development, and temporary work at a state-run restaurant; cooking and workplace details are dense enough that the formulaic feel is diluted by slice-of-life plots, making it suitable for readers who like this framework.

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About the author

马尼尼 Author

Ma Nini is a Chinese web author known for time-travel and alternate-world fiction, though public information about the author remains limited, with nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background not clearly recorded. According to the library's holdings, the author has 11 works, almost all centered on the Ugly Girl Invincible series, including volumes 1 to 4, volumes 8 to 10, and the complete 10-volume collection, indicating that this series forms the core of the author's output. The works are commonly categorized as time-travel and alternate-world fiction, using shifts in time and space and fictional settings to develop characters' fates, and they show the serialized structure and popular narrative style typical of online genre fiction. Because verifiable biographical information is scarce, understanding of the author's writing features relies mainly on bibliographic and category clues, and readers may further explore the narrative orientation and serialized creation through the specific works.