The Invincible Ugly Woman (Volume 7)

马尼尼Dec 2022

Rating 2.8

Word count: 180K words
Chapters: 85

Summary

The legendary imperial chef's descendant Xu Taotao hides her culinary skills in the city—until she dies of overwork, gets bound to a Dedication System, and transmigrates into the 1970s as the famously ugly daughter of a meat-processing plant's pig butcher. To become beautiful, she has no choice but to keep grinding away at work, and with her superb cooking skills she climbs the ladder, gets a raise, and marries Professor Gu... pfft, as if!

"Ding-dong! Trading a braised meat recipe earns you a temp job at the state-run restaurant, lighting up one career point and returning the host's 'Snow Skin'! From now on, you dark little thing will be a fair-skinned beauty!"

"Ding-dong! Successfully developing 'ham sausage' promotes you to deputy section chief of Product Development, lighting up five career points and returning 'Autumn Waters, Bright Eyes'!"

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

Watch an ugly girl turn beautiful, marry a professor, climb the ladder, and earn foreign exchange!

Editor's review

This volume continues the main line of Xu Taotao's comeback through the "Dedication System," bringing the daily life of 1970s state-run restaurants, meat processing plants, and product R&D to vivid, down-to-earth life. The draw is the setting where dishes and recipes are exchanged for career points to gradually restore her appearance, making "becoming beautiful" and "getting promoted" cause and effect for each other, with a brisk pace and a level-up satisfaction. The author's descriptions of braised foods, ham sausage, and other eats are concrete and sensory, and the period atmosphere and workplace details are solid—good for fragmented reading on the commute or before bed. Interactions with relatives and colleagues have a light comic flavor, and though the Professor Gu line gets little space, it leaves ample room for later emotional development. As Volume 7 of the series, character relationships and system rules are relatively stable; new readers starting here may need a few pages to adapt to the setting, while veteran readers can pick up smoothly.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Readers who like period novels combined with food elements
Readers who prefer light wish-fulfillment and protagonists rising through skills
Readers with nostalgic interest in 1970s state-run factory life
Readers who want to follow a serial in fragmented time without heavy themes

Not a good fit for

Readers tired of system-novel settings who prefer realistic narration
Readers expecting serious literary style and deep character portrayal
Readers who don't accept "becoming beautiful" as a core plot driver

Reading tips

Skim previous volumes' character relationships first, then read chapter by chapter to get into the system rules faster.
Treat each dish and each promotion as a small node, and jot down which abilities were exchanged after reading.
Read two or three chapters per commute or bedtime session; no need to finish in one sitting.
If interested in period details, note the job posts and ration coupons at the state-run restaurant and meat plant.

版权信息
第四百七十九章解决办法
第四百八十章成了
第四百八十一章师母是谁？
第四百八十二章积分结算
第四百八十三章这个女人不好惹
第四百八十四章回家
第四百八十五章升职厂长
第四百八十六章晕过去了
第四百八十七章赵家村
第四百八十八章升级大礼包奖励
第四百八十九章买买买
第四百九十章礼物
第四百九十一章被训
第四百九十二章找上门
第四百九十三章养猪大计
第四百九十四章表姐亲事被截
第四百九十五章何副社长
第四百九十六章谈合作
第四百九十七章谁是合作对象
第四百九十八章落实合作
第四百九十九章合作愉快
第五百章皮大衣
第五百零一章过年咯
第五百零二章拜年
第五百零三章回家
第五百零四章难缠的专家
第五百零五章攻略专家的一百八十种办法
第五百零六章请柬
第五百零七章许厂长，工作忙
第五百零八章升学宴1
第五百零九章升学宴2
第五百一十章升学宴3
第五百一十一章升学宴4
第五百一十二章升学宴5
第五百一十三章神秘传言
第五百一十四章未来姐夫的安排
第五百一十五章再见殷泉
第五百一十六章好消息坏消息
第五百一十七章统子，你帮不帮？
第五百一十八章讨价还价
第五百一十九章亏大了
第五百二十章全国先进工作单位
第五百二十一章离别礼
第五百二十二章到首都
第五百二十三章顾家做客
第五百二十四章美甲
第五百二十五章翡翠镯子
第五百二十六章租房子
第五百二十七章逛友谊商店
第五百二十八章顾教授不能生？
第五百二十九章谁羞辱谁
第五百三十章顾教授的烂桃花
第五百三十一章新衣服
第五百三十二章馋嘴老太任教授
第五百三十三章报道
第五百三十四章学生会
第五百三十五章拉赞助
第五百三十六章成功上船
第五百三十七章针对
第五百三十八章赞助商
第五百三十九章被铅笔收买的高材生们
第五百四十章火了的‘新生入学传单’
第五百四十一章舍友们
第五百四十二章熟人
第五百四十三章逛百货大楼
第五百四十四章你的妹妹我的妹妹
第五百四十五章拍画报？不不不
第五百四十六章登天梯
第五百四十七章许同学杀疯了
第五百四十八章表哥被揍
第五百四十九章你敢说你俩没关系？
第五百五十章一个个都在想啥呢
第五百五十一章得罪邢学红
第五百五十二章火速求购火锅底料
第五百五十三章长城火锅系列产品
第五百五十四章许桃桃主动承担错误吧
第五百五十五章教授们，求放过
第五百五十六章要个说法
第五百五十七章找帮手
第五百五十八章颠倒黑白
第五百五十九章又添罪名？
第五百六十章官方力挺，邢学红，KO！
第五百六十一章跳级考&赞助文具
第五百六十二章教做人

FAQ

Can I start with Volume 7 without reading earlier volumes?

You can read it, but this volume builds on earlier character relationships and system rules, so starting directly may feel jumpy regarding Xu Taotao's progress with Professor Gu and the logic of career-point exchanges. It's best to skim previous volumes' tables of contents or quickly catch up on the last volume before entering this one.

Is this mainly about cooking or about promotions?

Both are interwoven. Cooking and developing foods are the main ways to earn career points, while promotions and appearance restoration are the results. The book has concrete food plots like the braised meat recipe and ham sausage development, as well as job promotions and colleague interactions—food is the means to drive the plot, and the comeback growth is the main line.

Is it suitable for children?

As a light novel with a period background, middle schoolers who like food and comeback stories can read it, but it involves workplace competition and hints of romance and marriage, which younger children may find hard to understand. Parents can skim it first before deciding whether to recommend it.

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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.