CHAPTER 765: CHAPTER 761: NOT CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE INSEPARABLE

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However, while Yan Jinsu sighed with guilt, she also found herself utterly powerless to improve the situation!

It wasn’t that she didn’t love her children, but some misunderstandings and resentments had arisen that wouldn’t just disappear with love, nor simply because she was the one who gave birth to them, could they get along happily.

Just like with the Yan Family... over all these years, even with her birth parents, she still couldn’t enjoy a pleasant relationship. Feelings can’t be forced, not even familial ones.

On the other hand, one could only say that the three little baozis had been too successfully brainwashed by Little Shier.

And Yan Jinsu never wanted to bother her husband with household matters.

Over these decades, Xie Jingchen’s official title might have been just Rong District Chief, but the burden he bore was so great that he had very little time to return home.

No wonder Shiyi always blamed her for being useless, for not being able to keep her husband at home. In reality, it wasn’t about ’keeping him home’ at all; she truly didn’t want to trouble the man she dearly loved.

She thought of her husband’s promise to her, that once the children were adults, he would retire and spend time growing old with her...

Undeniably, that promise was too wonderful. Because of such thoughts and expectations, Yan Jinsu allowed her husband to continue with the work he was passionate about.

Everyone has their own path, and Yan Jinsu didn’t want to shackle her husband’s mission with family obligations.

Sometimes, Yan Jinsu didn’t even understand herself; she desperately wanted to be with her husband and to spoil her children a bit more so they wouldn’t be so distant from her.

But there are only so many hours in a day, the children have to go to school, and she also had her own responsibilities –

If one can’t have it all in life... Yan Jinsu could only let her children continue to misunderstand her.

After all, it was either they misunderstood her or her husband.

It was better they misunderstand her; she spent her days indoors, where life was void of any danger. But if they misunderstood their father, and his attention lapsed, it could very well cost him his life at any moment!

Therefore, Yan Jinsu would rather have the children continue to misunderstand her.

Seeing Mommy’s face suddenly turn pale, Xie Yuchen, who bore a resemblance to Xie Jingchen by about seventy percent, changed his expression instantly and anxiously asked in a hurry:

"Mommy, what’s wrong?"

Yan Jinsu shook her head, recovered from a bout of heart palpitations, and smiled reassuringly at her eldest son:

"Xiaojiu, don’t worry, they’re all my children, how could I truly be angry at them? It’s just that in the future, you’ll have a hard time; Mommy didn’t raise them well, so you’ll have to take extra care of them."

"Mommy, rest assured, I will spend more time disciplining them in the future, don’t be angry with Little Shier. Little Shier has just been spoiled by us."

"Mmm~" Yan Jinsu leaned on the sofa, nodding weakly.

Xie Yuchen, however, realized that deep down, Mommy was still hurt.

Because Dad was seldom home, and when he was, he would go out of his way to spoil Little Shier, alternating between showering him with affection and training the four brothers –

When they couldn’t stand it anymore, Mommy would just watch coldly; only Little Shier would plead on their behalf.

So, after many occasions like this, the younger ones, Shiyi and the rest, believed that Mommy didn’t like them, and that the only one who truly cared for them was Little Shier, leading them to misunderstand and hold prejudice against Mommy, resulting in such a cold relationship.

Actually, he understood that Mommy was merely showing respect to Daddy, acquiescing to his teachings and discipline, to not deprive them of the chance to be close to their father.

Moreover, Daddy might be strict with them, but he never randomly scolds; they always had the opportunity to say "no."

It’s just that the three little ones were timid and didn’t dare stand up to Daddy, so they could only suppress all their sadness on Mommy.

He once held the same notion but changed his mind one time when he saw Mommy sobbing uncontrollably over Daddy’s body, her small hands fiercely twisting at his waist, accusing Daddy of being too harsh on them. He then realized that Mommy was a very reserved woman.

Her motherly love was unspoken.

Yet, she expressed her care in her way. Just like their father, being strict with them didn’t mean he didn’t love them; he only wanted them to be able to protect themselves when they grew up.

Even in the case of Little Shier, although she was pampered, she still trained with her four brothers whenever training was due.

Of course, the requirements for their only daughter, Xie Jingchen, were really quite simple. As long as she could run, jump, and dodge, that was enough; he didn’t ask for more.

Now that the family is in such a state, who knows what kind of punishments the younger ones will receive when Daddy comes back.

Xie Yuchen suddenly remembered that his father seemed to have never realized the three youngsters, including Little Shier, always had a grudge against Mommy—because whenever Daddy was around, the three little ones, including Little Shier, would act obedient!

And his mommy, she never mentioned such family matters to Daddy...

While the mother and son were having a heart-to-heart chat, the three little ones finally finished checking and came downstairs looking disgruntled.

"How did it go?" Upon seeing Mommy with her eyes half-closed, Xie Yuchen immediately asked.

"Sister took all the money, didn’t see much clothing missing, just a backpack is gone, the black one that Uncle mailed over." It looked very unbranded and plain, so no one would guess that it was something Uncle had sent from abroad.

Of course, Uncle had mailed it for their own mother, but the sister just liked it and took it without asking.

It wasn’t the first time Xie Yuyue had done such a thing, and the three little ones were used to it, just usually didn’t dare let their big brother know, otherwise, they would all be in for a scolding.

"The one Uncle mailed over?" Xie Yuchen grew up watching the little ones and immediately understood from the way the three little ones shrugged their shoulders when he asked that it was yet another instance of stealing from Mommy!

This Little Shier!

Getting more and more presumptuous!

Xie Yuchen pursed his lips, his eyes, strikingly similar to Xie Jingchen’s, instantly darkened as he yelled at the three: "When we find Little Shier, you just wait for my punishment!"

Uh, if he doesn’t punish them, once Daddy comes back, they will surely bear the brunt. Xie Yuchen was actually trying to save the three little ones. Yet, obviously, the younger brothers couldn’t appreciate his good intentions and instead glared back at him in defiance.

"Alright, let’s talk about punishment later. Do you have any idea where your sister might have gone?" Yan Jinsu calmly opened her eyes and inquired.

Xiaojiu was burdened with heavy schoolwork and has long stopped mingling with the little ones.

And the three little ones, educated by Xie Jingchen and Xie Yuchen, took it as their duty to protect their sister, rallying around her at every opportunity they got.

"Sister has a few good friends..."

"No need to ask further, your sister is not little anymore; she wouldn’t hide at a friend’s house. If you guys were to run away from home, would you go to a classmate or friend’s house?" Yan Jinsu interrupted Shiyi’s words and asked straightaway.

"Uh..."

Xie Yuchen also felt that his biological sister would not go to her classmates or girlfriends. She wasn’t that close to them to be inseparable!