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Overall, it currently falls into the expectations set by the title without standing out in any particular way.The protagonist remembers her past life as a workoholic polymath after a near-death experience, and sets out to her family's territory to create a foundation for independence. Then, as a result, she'll end up saving the territory's finances and establish various reforms in the process.Not all of that has happened yet, but it's pretty clear that that's where the frame of the story is going. There are a couple of other novels like this, so the interesting portion will be the "actual" plot, the characters, and their interactions.The pace is fairly slow, so after these 24 chapters, the characters who will become the protagonist's peers have not yet appeared, although a few potential ones have been mentioned.One thing that is strange to me however is that while the society is extremely patriarchal - as many have been historically - for some reason the protagonist's introduction to office work is smooth with barely any obstacles, not just considering her gender but also that she is still 8 years old.For some reason, the characters that she ends up interacting with don't actually value the patriarchy, to the point that it seems strange that the society has remained in that state, even considering the more "traditional" aristocracy that hasn't played a big role yet.Western societies were worse off just a century ago, so it seems strange for people to be this progressive in a society that seems medieval.