Years are unrelenting, time flies by in an instant, as if a quick flash of lightning, thirteen years have passed in a hurry.
Yan Jinsu lived each day to the fullest, with understanding in-laws, sensible children, a successful career, and a husband who cherished her like a precious pearl.
But, is this really the truth?
It could only be said that this was completely an illusion.
Yan Jinsu’s career indeed went very smoothly.
The climate in X county town was quite nice, whether it was for her career as an Alchemist or the development of her family’s Mountain Villa, the harvest kept getting better and better.
The in-laws were mostly reasonable, but as the saying goes, "old children", with age gradually increasing, even with Yan Jinsu’s good medicine, they couldn’t withstand the passage of time.
No matter if it was Xie Tiesheng or Zhou Xiuhua, the physical functions of both elders were deteriorating, and it seemed like their intelligence was also decreasing, especially in the past two years, often acting petulantly and causing quite a few ridiculous incidents that were both laughable and cry-worthy.
As the children grew up, it was natural for the elders to gradually turn their black hair to white, which was an inevitable outcome.
During these thirteen years, Yan Jinsu indeed experienced the separation of being the wife of Rong Wei, herself being Mrs. Rong.
The couple would have to spend a quarter of a year apart, and during Rong Wei’s absences, Yan Jinsu had to act both as a parent and a child, personally taking care of everything.
The children were okay, as they had grown up and all five had been very independent from a young age, only Little Shier was particularly pampered, with her little aunts Xiaojiu and Shiyi and her three little brothers all spoiling her excessively.
When Xie Jingchen was home, he would lead in spoiling his daughter, to the extent of her being pampered beyond any bounds. If not for Yan Jinsu’s firm stance, and making Little Shier independent from the age of ten, this little aunt would have definitely turned into the Xie Family’s queen!
Uh, now she might not have become queen, but calling her the Xie Family’s little Princess wouldn’t be wrong.
Six years ago, little uncle remarried, and the next year the youngest grandson Little Shisi was born to the Xie family. Among ten children in the younger generation of the Xie family, there were only three granddaughters.
Besides eldest granddaughter Xiao Wu, who was tormented by her biological mother when she was young, and Xiaoqi who had been neglected by her biological mother from a young age, among all the Xie family’s granddaughters, indeed Little Shier was the most cherished.
Being pampered from a young age, as one of the Dragon-Phoenix twins with Xiaojiu, it could be said that everyone in the Xie family from Xie Tiesheng to Xiao Shisan dearly pampered Little Shier.
Pampered to the extreme, Yan Jinsu would sometimes get angry, yet Little Shier would dare not take her seriously.
This was the case again, with her husband on a mission, fifteen-year-olds Xiaojiu and Little Shier were facing college entrance exams.
Xiaojiu was manageable, although he too pampered his twin sister, he was very considerate and felt sorry for his mother, often left alone by their father, and was very obedient.
On the contrary, Little Shier and Yan Jinsu, for some reason, either because their auras clashed or Little Shier misunderstood something, whenever she couldn’t see her father at home, she would blame Yan Jinsu for being incompetent, unable to even keep her own husband—
With a look that was deeply disappointed.
In this family, there were those fixated on daughters, fathers, brothers, sisters, little brothers, and little sisters— all sorts of obsessions, which gave Yan Jinsu a lot of headaches.
Perhaps it was because she had the memory of two lifetimes, her warmth was also privately given to her husband Xie Jingchen.
Besides when the children were little, and she would kiss and coax the three little buns, once they started school at the age of six or seven, Yan Jinsu always fulfilled the role of ’Mother Yan’.
Therefore, aside from Xiaojiu, who matured intellectually and genuinely sympathized with Yan Jinsu, the younger ones all thought Mummy was particularly useless — this included the three little buns who had succumbed to the special ideas instilled by Little Shier.
Yan Jinsu felt deeply wronged. It was Xie Jingchen who was passionate about his work, so why were all the kids blaming her?
With Xie Jingchen on a mission for three months now and still not back, Yan Jinsu began to feel anxious. Yet, Little Shier kept making sarcastic remarks every day, picking fights with Yan Jinsu in daily life and studies, infuriating Yan Jinsu to no end.
And now, Yan Jinsu received a call from the school teacher, saying her daughter even proposed to change her aspirations —
This must be mentioned: both Xiaojiu and Xiao Shi, due to their Innate Spiritual Bodies, had truly devilish high IQs, but the two kids were evidently uneven in their skills and not highly emotionally intelligent.
That’s why Yan Jinsu had the children start school at just over seven years old and, due to their high intelligence, they had to attend a special school and started in third grade at seven.
Being so young, Yan Jinsu did not want to completely strip her children of their natural tendencies, and since both kids had somewhat reclusive personalities, bonding with their own family but rarely interacting with outsiders...
For this reason, even if Xiaojiu and Xiao Shi could skip grades again in school, Yan Jinsu refused.
The elementary schooling only lasted five years, and they finished at nine years old.
Middle school lasted three years, and they completed it at twelve.
High school also lasted three years, and at fifteen, they were about to advance and fill in their aspirations.
In contrast to the twins’ special accelerated path, Shiyi and his two brothers followed the standard curriculum, starting school at six and currently transitioning from middle to high school.
Previously, Yan Jinsu and her husband Xie Jingchen had already made things clear with the two kids: Xiaojiu picked mathematical Olympiad subjects according to his preferences.
Little Shier was initially indifferent, and Yan Jinsu wanted her daughter to continue to study biology, so in the future, if she didn’t want to stay in the lab, she could become a little professor at a school — it’s relaxed, has many holidays, and is most suitable for her pampered and sheltered character.
It was all agreed upon, and the aspirations were all set with the homeroom teacher. This sudden change in aspirations by Little Shier was surely asking for trouble!
When Yan Jinsu heard from the teacher that Little Shier wanted to switch to a military school... Yan Jinsu felt her daughter really was a handful.
Not to mention her twenty-four-filial-piety Dad’s willingness, even the entire Xie Family would strongly oppose it.
As for Yan Jinsu? Ha, based on Little Shier’s princess-like behavior, needing her brothers to do things like dress her, could she become a military officer?
Xie Yuyue had been pampered to the point of disability, and she dares to talk about joining the military? Pfft, would she bring along a brother to take care of her daily needs?
And then thinking about her three young sons who were born prematurely at seven months but were raised by her to be like black bears, Yan Jinsu figured if they heard their sister wanted to attend a military school, these little ones would probably skip high school altogether, clamouring to go to the military to ’look after’ her!
Oh, that’s right, Little Shier’s full name is Xie Yuyue, hmm, the ’Divine Pearl’ of that scoundrel Xie Jingchen!
The remaining four sons of the second branch of Xie Family are named respectively: Xie Yuchen, Xie Yuzhen, Xie Yujue, and Xie Yuqi.
The names were chosen by Xie Jingchen and Mr. Xie together, according to the birth times of their four children, and suffice it to say, father and son Xie were both quite satisfied.
Hmm, right, naming had nothing to do with Yan Jinsu. She just needed to take care of giving birth, and the rest, like choosing names, she never had a say as a ’woman’ ~
Yan Jinsu, suppressing the raging anger in her heart, listened politely through her daughter’s homeroom teacher’s ramblings and advice, hung up the phone as gently as possible, and then shouted upstairs with a Lioness’s roar:
"Xie Yuyue, get your ass down here for your mother!"