My Billion-Dollar Fortune Starts with an Inheritance

[Advance notices: "How Does My Dad Keep Getting Stolen?" and "Princess! The Otome Game Extra Must Fight Back" are waiting eagerly in my author column. See below for their synopses.] [Synopsis] You Caier struck it rich, becoming the heir to an enormous fortune overnight. Tens of billions in cash, more shares than she could count, more assets than she could ever look through... You Caier: There's no way I can spend it all. I can't spend it all! On her first day as a rich woman, she started learning how to spend money. First, she topped up her game account with a hundred bundles of 648 yuan. Pretty clothes, buy! Pretty jewelry, buy, buy! Pretty cars, buy, buy, buy! Pretty houses, buy, buy, buy, buy! Pretty guys... Wait, she couldn't buy those. That was way too illegal. With more money than she could spend, You Caier put her hands on her hips and started investing (throwing money around). That entertainment company is about to go bankrupt? Buy it! That pretty actress has no opportunities? Buy her opportunities! That handsome actor has no scripts? Buy him scripts! The production team can't find a suitable filming location? Buy one--there isn't one to buy? Then build a new one, and make it huge! Later, the entertainment company became an industry leader, the pretty actress became a top-tier star, and the handsome actor became a double award-winning film emperor. Even the film studio built for shooting web dramas became a tourist attraction, with countless production teams lining up to rent its facilities. That game company looks like a money pit. Buy it! Buy it and make games just for herself! The dating game became a hit, the farming game became a hit, the single-player game became a hit, and the online game became a hit. Even the special-effects studio making CG for the games became a hit! The various powerful CEOs invested in by You Caier kept their names out of the limelight: every day, they worked hard to earn money for Miss You! They had to make sure Miss You could spend happily without a care in the world! Later, the funds she bought went up, the stocks she bought skyrocketed, and even the small companies she bought went public. She bought an orchard that became a popular photo spot, bought a barren mountain and discovered hot springs, and even found oil on an island she bought. Everyone: So the legendary golden touch really does exist. You Caier: I can't spend all this money. I really can't spend it all. QAQ [Advance notice No. 1 in my author column: "Princess! The Otome Game Extra Must Fight Back" is waiting eagerly] After transmigrating into the womb and living for 18 years, Xia Yin finally learned that she hadn't simply been reborn with her memories. She had transmigrated into a sci-fi otome game whose setting and characters she had once learned about, but whose routes she hadn't had a chance to play. · The most popular male lead is the Imperial Prince, a smiling angel with blond hair and blue eyes, a gentle god whose whole body seems to glow, complete with sparkling effects and a soundtrack whenever he appears. He keeps running into the game's heroine, is drawn to her sunny, energetic personality, and begins a beautiful romance where every scene looks like a stunning movie frame. Great. This prince, who could be thrown away for all she cares, happens to be her fiance, a match arranged between the two countries with absolutely no feelings involved. · The second male lead is just as popular as the first. He's the academy's student council president, the Empire's top student, a model aristocrat, and the heir to real power. He keeps clashing with the game's heroine at the academy, is won over by her charm, and begins a romance full of intellectual chemistry. Well, this person seems to be her childhood friend, who grew up with her. They get along well and have even slept in the same bed. · The third male lead shifts seamlessly between adorable and mischievous. He has a face kissed by an angel, but the heart of a devil obsessed with pranks. He meets the game's heroine through a series of pranks, switching between angel and devil. His route is said to be the hardest to conquer. She knows this one even better. He ate breakfast at the same table as her this morning, her twin brother, who shares her face. · At least she's not at all familiar with the fourth male lead, whose deep, mournful love is too intense to last. With just his deep blue, ocean-like eyes, he can make everyone lose themselves. He came all the way to the Imperial Academy as an exchange student for the sake of the game's heroine. That's right, they have no connection whatsoever, and even if they did, she would never admit it. · Those are bad enough, but what gives her the biggest headache is that, as a princess, she plays the role of the extra villain in this game. She appears in every single route, and the ending is easy to guess. What's more, she's surrounded by a whole crew of extras determined to cause trouble along the routes. They include, but aren't limited to, a weepy, fragile flower, a sharp-tongued scheming girl, a ruthless henchman who lets his fists do the talking, a master flatterer who can talk the dead back to life and is the source of most rumors, a fence-sitter who leans whichever way the wind blows, and a whole collection of spoiled young nobles who live for free meals and are beyond saving... Xia Yin rubbed her forehead. Seriously, there's not a decent person around her. · Xia Yin, who refuses to admit she has terrible judgment when it comes to friends, decides this world must be the problem. What kind of society is this? What kind of conditions are these? Why is everyone so determined to follow the romance routes? And all those people who have nothing better to do than cause trouble every day? It's all because they don't have enough homework! She can't do anything about the main male leads, and she doesn't want to. But all these extras around her, every last one of them, are getting put through their paces! · Physical training: Fifty laps aren't enough? Then do five hundred! Theory exams: Three rounds of studying aren't enough? Then do thirty! Developing psychic powers: If the grind doesn't kill you, keep grinding until it does! Don't want to work hard? Fine, then you're out of the princess's entourage! The followers don't want the princess to dislike them or leave them behind, so they can only cry, cling to her leg, and struggle to keep up. Even a bunch of sycophants nobody respected can turn themselves into the Empire's idol group. · When the male leads realize that their fiancee, childhood friend, and biological older sister have completely ignored them, they panic. The world has changed into something they don't recognize. Is there still time to follow the plot? Xia Yin: Go follow your romance routes. You have nothing to do here. The male leads: But we only want to follow a romance route with you! Xia Yin: Then forget it. Let's just destroy the world! Theme: A happy life is something you must create with your own hands.