Cheng Su felt somewhat disheartened, thinking that as someone who had been wronged in death and arrived in this era, Heaven would grant her some sort of cheat or advantage. Though there had been some initial difficulties, they were negligible and everything had proceeded quite smoothly up to now.
However, the consequence of this smooth sailing was that she had allowed herself to dream too lavishly, to become too full of beautiful aspirations, forgetting the harsh reality. It was still the mid-1980s, the era of economic reform and opening up. Though the economy was improving, this was mainly in the more developed cities, even the big ones. For more remote areas, progress was very slow.
Not to mention, even more remote places like mountainous regions.