I’m a Villainess, So What?: A Cozy Isekai Romantasy (The Villainess Route Is Broken Book 1)

All she has to do is waste a fortune and wait for exile. How hard could it be?

When Dara Chann dies overworked and broke, she wakes up in the body of Lynara Voss—a doomed villainess in a fantasy world with three years until her family's inevitable exile. The deal from a divine bureaucracy is irresistible: waste the Voss family fortune, let disgrace run its course, and return home with a billion dollars. Finally, unlimited money and explicit permission to be completely selfish.

Dara's strategy is simple: spend aggressively on personal comfort, indulge every whim, and coast toward exile in luxury. Fix the disgusting medieval streets because the smell offends her. Build infrastructure because bumpy roads are annoying. Hire whoever makes her life easier. It's all genuinely selfish, genuinely expensive, and entirely about her own comfort.

Except something keeps going wrong. Her expensive sanitation projects accidentally improve public health. Her vanity spending creates jobs. Workers thank her for wages she raised purely because underpaying people is crude and ugly. Joined by Cai, a sarcastic golden dragon with a gift for unhelpful commentary, Dara is too busy enjoying her increasingly comfortable life to notice that every self-serving decision is somehow making Ambervale better instead of worse. The mission was supposed to be easy: waste money, be terrible, get exiled. But when you have unlimited capital and modern knowledge in a medieval economy, even your worst decisions start looking suspiciously like success.

Sometimes failing properly is harder than it looks.