In the end, MC and ML became a government officer with a high position (MC was in foreign affair while ML in economy affair). As for ML's brother, Donghe, he surprisingly did well in a business venture (I think he was far richer than ML's family now).

I initially wondered why MC and ML didn't do business themselves because MC came from modern era and she had many ideas but when I think about it again, their current jobs somehow really suited them well. ML had an upright character and loved to contribute to the country. With his knowledge, he strived to make common people's life better. And I also didn't think MC want to be a business tycoon from the start. If she wanted to be a businesswoman, she would focus on building her business since in the village because she had so many opportunities with her skills alone. But she didn't do it and focused more on her family.

MC's mom didn't despise her daughter just because she was divorced by her first husband. She even didn't let MC remarry some random men because she was afraid she will enter another fire pit. She didn't care about others talking behind her back. She only worried that MC would take it to the heart and become sad.

ML's mom was also a good mother-in-law. She treated her daughter-in-laws kindly, even the horrible Zheng Yuefen (ML's 2nd brother's wife). She was so different from other mother-in-law in the countryside who often treated their daughter-in-law as a s*ave.

• MC's ex husband's family, especially her ex mother-in-law didn't have a good time after MC's ex (Lu Chenyuan) married a new wife. Mrs Lu forced Lu Chenyuan to divorce MC just because she didn't get pregnant after 3 years of marriage while in fact, she was still a virg*n and Lu Chenyuan had an erectile disfunction. Lu Chenyuan was too coward to admit his condition to his mother and MC took all the blame in the end. But his new wife was a domineering one and she didn't give Lu Chenyuan and his mother a face at all so they quarreled all the time. She even made Lu Chenyuan a chuckoold and got pregnant with other man's child. I pity Lu Chenyuan a bit though. I know he was wrong to divorce and destroy MC's reputation but it was also not easy for him with that kind of problem as man in that era. He must be frustated but was too ashamed to get some help. His mother also contributed to his cowardness because she was too domineering and controlling.
• Wang Mei was a city girl who was sent to a countryside but secretly longed to get back to the city one day. She was betrayed by her boyfriend so she married ML who had a promising future. But she wasn't satisfied with her life in the countryside and when she had an opportunity to go back to the city, she divorced ML and didn't hesitate to leave her children with hin so they didn't hinder her future in the city. I must say that Wang Mei is really s*upid. She could consult with ML about her desire and with ML's character, I think he will try to fulfill Wang Mei's wish so she didn't have to abandon her family. But she still chose to run back to her ex boyfriend who only treated her like a mistress (served her right). In the end, she married another man for convenience but they didn't have a good relationship.
• Zheng Yuefei was another s*upid woman. She had a kind husband and mother-in-law who could tolerate her temper but she didn't appreciate it. She kept making trouble and after getting so much chance to repent, ML finally couldn't take it anymore. He separated the 2 families and in the end, Donghe also divorced her. Speaking of Donghe, he's a bit pitiful because after his divorce, he still didn't find anyone that he trully loved till the end.

The MC and ML have decent personalities and settings. Both families are good, just too passive. All the progress depend on the MC, like NPCs who can't move without instructions from a player.

The characters' thinking is somewhat traditional but you can't expect 70's people to have the same mindset of now, especially china 70's.

The ML fully supports her career and education and respects her, he was afraid at the beginning (because of his ex) but I can understand his feelings and he didn't stop her or hold her back from her dreams.

about the second sister in law, I can understand that a hero needs a villain and their existence make things more interesting if used in the right place, but this doesn't mean that everyone has to get along with the MC or they become vicious villains. Her second sister in law setting was selfish but she gets well with her husband and that was fine. Later she was turned into brainless vicious cannon fodder to make the MC look better, but a real better or successful person doesn't need others to become loser to look successful, great people will always be compared to other great people not losers.

The same thing happened with her little sister in law Mixiang. Luo Siwen the older sister in law of Mixiang was made as brainless vicious cannon fodder who sew discord between family members and say wrong things to children.

The child that MC had was not because ML wanted to stop her dreams or anything, MC said that she was following the method of protection of her period to avoid getting pregnant which is not very effective as pills or cond*ms, which after a few months of marriage she complains pregnant, ML supported with all his heart to MC left a steady job to go to study with her not to stop her future, until the end of the novel they didn't have more children because the ML considered that he didn't want MC to go through all the pain that pregnancy implied, I don't understand which novel the person of the comment below read but considering that I read the whole novel and I didn't see anything about her, I think that we just read different novels.