Demian had one simple goal after waking up inside a romance fantasy novel: stay out of the story, make an absurd amount of money, and live comfortably.

The first two worked perfectly.

The third fell apart when the novel's heroes started meddling with his business—and crossed a line they couldn't take back.

If the empire insists on making him an enemy, then he'll simply take his fortune elsewhere, bankrupt the country that wronged him, and build a better one from scratch. After all, coups are expensive. Good thing he's already the richest man in the world.