The situation in Sumeru right now is much better than in the original story. Set four hundred years ago, the nation has not decayed to the extent seen in the main plot, meaning there is still plenty of room for a major turnaround.
Fu felt quite troubled by the awkward timing of her transmigration. If she had arrived a bit earlier, she could have saved Raiden Makoto, Kitsune Saiguu, and the others; if she had arrived later, she would have at least encountered characters she was familiar with.
Instead, she was stuck in this neither-here-nor-there timeframe—she lacked the script-like foresight to predict everything, yet was powerless to change the tragic fates that befell the characters of the past.
Chapter 160