MODERN VILLAINESS ITS NOT EASY BUILDING EMPIRE SC NOVEL (2025)

When an exhausted career woman is reincarnated as Keikain Runa, the villainess of an otome game born in the 1990s, she's determined to win at any cost. She may lose the love interest's heart, but she refuses to be ruined. Armed with the foreknowledge of the economic crash that is the Great Recession of 2008 looming on Japan's horizon, Runa must revitalize her father's company and secure her freedom for herself and her new family.

When an exhausted career woman is reincarnated as Keikain Runa, the villainess of an otome game born in the 1990s, she's determined to win at any cost. She may lose the love interest's heart, but she refuses to be ruined. Armed with the foreknowledge of the economic crash and the Great Recession of 2008 looming on Japan's horizon, Runa must revitalize her father's company and secure her freedom for herself and her new family.

After narrowly pulling the Keika Group through what appeared to be an imminent collapse, Runa has ascended to new heights as The Little Queen. Leveraging currency, cunning, and financial power, she continues to establish the Fuchigami administration. However, danger and distrust lurk around every corner, leaving Runa to face still looming tragedy with her futuristic knowledge once again. And as this version of Japan looks towards the 21st century, Runa finds less and less time to save Japan from utter economic collapse. It seems that no matter what, the fate of Japan is set to occur once again.

Between the effects of the coordinated terrorist attacks in America and the home-grown hostility against Keika Group, Runa has her hands full running her empire. As Keika Group expands, Japan fights back, seeking regulations that make corporate restructuring inevitable. Nevertheless, Her Little Majesty pushes through the turmoil until Prime Minister Koizumi lands a ruthless blow, threatening to shatter everything she's worked so hard for. Now that the writing is on the wall, what path will she choose?

When the economy collapses in September 2008, an exhausted career woman's fate is left in flux... until she's reincarnated! Now she's Keikan Runa-the villainous daughter of the Keika Group-in an otome game set before the pop of Japan's economic bubble. Keika Group's financial situation isn't great: they're on the verge of ruin if left unchecked. However, Runa is determined to save both Keika Group and Japan through risky, smart investments. Thanks to an interest in cold hard cash, knowledge of future technology, and her awareness of Japan's real-world future doom, Runa might just be able to nip the looming economic collapse in the bud!

TRAITORS AND TERRORISTS CLOSE IN!A Keika employee from the Osaka office clues Runa in to treachery within the Keika Group. Disloyal underlings want to dethrone the Young Lady! The loss of Runa’s savvy leadership would threaten the Japanese economy itself, and she springs into action—but will careful business moves be enough to fend off these snakes in the grass?!Runa’s not just dealing with professional foes. There’s a terrorist plot unfolding, and she’s their target too. But that news only reaches her when she’s already en route to Narita Airport! Is there time to plan a defense before Runa’s train pulls in—and her enemies lash out?