The Gendai Shakai de Otome Game no Akuyaku Reijou o Suru no wa Chotto Taihen series (English subtitle: It’s Not Easy Building a Corporate Empire Before the Crash) is primarily economics porn. You’ll see the phrase “bad debt” quite often and be subjected to seemingly unending financial mechanics and fake newspaper articles. Secondary to that are the school life elements, which are horrid (a grown woman pretending to be a kindergartener is just…), with the otome game aspects coming in far last.
While superficially about the protagonist’s efforts to prevent her future ruination, it’s really more about how ‘no good deed goes unpunished’ with every action she takes to try to save the economy getting opposed by various levels of opposing greed, incompetence, or just flat-out patronization. Which is to say she’s more of a hero than a villain.
Covering the first half of a ‘survival’ arc, the fourth Free Life Fantasy novel is basically identical to previous entries. Ending halfway through the event doesn’t even end up a negative since the storyline, such as it is, has always been tertiary.