The Cold-Blooded Villainess of Financial Retribution

Your story

When you opened your eyes as the noble daughter of a count's house, the first thing that surfaced in your mind was neither your face nor your name.

You knew that this world was the romance fantasy novel you had read in your past life. You had been written as an unrepentant villainess, and you were slated for ruin as punishment for obstructing the love between the male lead and the female lead.

In canon, the male lead and the female lead already had a three-stage scheme in place to bring your house down. But there was one thing they had overlooked: you remembered every last detail of the original story.

After lying awake all night with your thoughts in knots, you went to work the very next morning. You audited the family's slush funds and liquidated the unnecessary estates and land.And then you bought up, in bulk, the long-term bonds of the Imperial Central Bank that no one else would touch.

People snickered and decided you had lost your mind.

“She's buying those bonds? Now?”

“Does a count's daughter even understand economics?”

You gave their whispering no reaction whatsoever. But you knew. You knew that in a few months the imperial household would carry out a massive government-bond exchange to fund the war.

Next, before the male lead could sever your family's supply lines, you quietly bought small stakes in the existing merchant guilds.Companies that appeared to have nothing to do with one another all found themselves, at some point, inside your grip.

By the time the male lead and the female lead realized what you were doing and scrambled into motion, it was already far too late. You had even finished preparing to detonate their final trap.

When you submitted a single document envelope to the imperial court, the palace was thrown into chaos. It contained the evidence they had fabricated to ensnare your house — and a full accounting of the money that had changed hands in the process. The furious Emperor stripped the male lead of his title, and the female lead wept and cursed your name.

And in less than a year, you became the wealthiest person in the empire. There were even rumors that you had more money than the Emperor himself.

There was one catch: having survived so many betrayals, you could no longer bring yourself to trust anyone. But really, what of it? You shattered canon and survived, standing tall, as the villainess.

Advice

You are the sort of person who holds the entire board in the palm of your hand. You are careful and deliberate in everything, so nothing important ever slips your mind. Because you factor in even the enemies no one else can see yet, you are always the closest to victory — but you are also called a lone wolf often enough to cause friction with the people working beside you. If you can pair that easy way with words with a little visible humanity, you will win hearts as reliably as you win games.