Invoked. Iris is almost forced to become a nun at the start of the story, but her clever presentation of the situation that got her in trouble and explanation for why it's not really a big problem anyway impresses her pragmatic father. To punish her, he sends her into 'confinement' at their ducal fief where he can't really keep an eye on her to make sure she's being chastised and, you know, it'd be kind of a waste to have her do nothing, so why not make her acting fief lord? Justified Criminal: It doesn't get more justified than needing to eat. It is all-but said outright that Tanya was a thief before ending up in Iris' care. The reason she was found bleeding and broken on the floor is heavily implied to be because she was caught in the act and beaten to near death. Beware the Nice Ones: Iris is willing to help her people without any provocation. However, she is more than willing to sentence Van to death for treason when he attempts to spy on her Duchy. She also tears Dorseen a new one after he causes her some trouble in her Dutchy, and she is happy when she finds out he had been expelled from the Knights and his family. She also tears into the Civil Servants that betrayed her. While she gives them a chance to either officially resign or return to work, she makes it clear there would be consequences if they continue impeding government progress. Cast Full of Pretty Boys: While none of them are portrayed as suitors, Iris is constantly surrounded by hot young guys like Dida and Dean.

Entitled Bastard: Yuri believes she is entitled to great things because she had a hard life growing up. Good Is Not Soft: Easily one of the nicest, friendliest, kindest souls around. However, when asked by Dida to spar, she points out the lethality of her method of combat would make her a poor sparring partner, and when some thugs talk about selling Iris into sex slavery directly in front of Tanya, she has her knife at the leader's throat faster than anyone can even blink.Following that, Van attempts to weasel into Iris' good graces so he can betray her so that Yuri will hang out with him again. Yes, really. However, Iris saw this totally obvious move coming, prepared accordingly , and executed him afterward for treason.

Iris' love for Edward blinded her to how much he had changed and caused her to fall into a really obvious trap set by other nobles who made her take the fall for their bullying.Formula with a Twist: The twist of this series has a tax bureau employee wake up in the body of the villainess of a game she played at the point where the villainess already lost her fiancé to the heroine. The reincarnation makes the best of the situation, avoiding the villainess's fate of exile to a convent and instead getting confined to her family's territory. The reincarnator then opts to use her knowledge of modern economics to change how things are run, making her former fiancé look like a fool for abandoning her for a lower-rank noble. Rags to Royalty: And from there becomes a princess-to-be , at least until Edward's inept plotting gets him and her arrested for treason before the wedding can actually happen. His visit to Armelia and later his pursuit of Dida for more info him being kidnapped alongside Dida. As Iris tells him later, if something had happened to him, people would have speculated she was behind it given their previous history.