It feels that Shao Qihai is a really useless person. He goes on and on about how he wants to protect his family, but so far he was an absentee father who left his children with woman he felt wasn't good and his family who never thought much of him and he must have known how they were as he lived so long with them prior to going to the army. Then there's the fact that his family was starving while he was in hiding, and instead of warning them that they might be in danger so that they can be vigilant, he hides and always appears late, after they barely escaped with their lives.. a well meaning great on the paper but in reality a completely unreliable and useless guy...