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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.