You all chase after the innocent school beauty, then I'll choose the rebellious female school b

"Brother Yuan, your girlfriend is something else."

After the three girls left, Pineapple Bro couldn't help but sigh.

Lu Yuan put down his teacup and looked at him with interest: "How do you know?"

"Hey, Brother Yuan, I've seen it all." Pineapple Brother puffed out his chest, looking smug. "Although your wife is dressed up beautifully, she has a lot of strength in her every move. And..." He paused, lowering his voice, "I noticed that she has scars on her face and forehead. They're not very obvious, but I could tell at a glance that they were marks left from a fight."

"Oh? You could tell that?"

Lu Yuan was certain that Pineapple Bro had never approached Ye Yixian from beginning to end. Yet, he was able to notice the subtle scars on Ye Yixian's forehead, demonstrating his keen observation skills.

"Haha, observe more, pay more attention." Pineapple Brother pointed to his eyes, then said seriously, "Besides that, I can also see that Yuan-ge, your mindset is different from ordinary people now, and Zhe-ge has also grown. Your two wives are also quite extraordinary. Anyway, none of you are people who can be easily fooled."

It must be said that Pineapple Bro's eye for detail is truly impeccable.

Lu Yuan smiled and, without hiding anything, briefly explained Ye Yixian's background.

After hearing this, Pineapple Bro was deeply shocked and couldn't help but feel admiration for Ye Yixian. He then slammed his fist on the table indignantly, saying, "It's a pity I wasn't in the country at that time. If I had been there, and knew that someone was bullying my sister-in-law like that, I would have definitely crippled them!"

"Don't worry, no one dares to bully her now." Lu Yuan took a sip of tea, then changed the subject, "What exactly is your relationship with... Xiao Zhuo?"

Gao Zhe also looked over.

Pineapple Bro tactically picked up a piece of food with his chopsticks, not in a hurry to answer, but instead revealed a mischievous smile: "Guess."

"Is she your girlfriend?" Gao Zhe asked.

Pineapple Bro shook his head: "I slept with her, but she's not my girlfriend."

"You broke up?"

"No, we were never together at all." Pineapple Bro took another bite of his food, pointed to his temple, and said, "She's a bit mentally unstable."

"What's wrong?" Lu Yuan pressed.

Judging from Pineapple Bro's attitude towards Xiao Zhuo, the two have a close relationship, but it is clearly not to the point of being a couple.

Pineapple Brother put down his chopsticks and explained seriously, "She just has a bit of a mental illness, a bad temper, and she doesn't know her own strength when she hits someone. She was abducted when she was six and escaped to Southeast Asia at fifteen, where she followed my master. She's good at math and accounting, and she's learned a lot of skills over the years. It's just that she has a terrible temper. She'll hit anyone except me and my master, and she's always causing trouble. She's a real pain."

"She...was abducted by human traffickers?"

Lu Yuan and Gao Zhe both looked surprised.

In the days before widespread surveillance, human traffickers were rampant. When I was a child, my parents' most frequent advice was to be wary of strangers and not to be abducted by traffickers.

Of course, it's not just children who need to be wary; adults do too, especially girls, who should never trust strangers.

"Yes. I don't know the specific details, but it seems that her adoptive parents who bought her didn't treat her well either, and she suffered a lot during the years she was on the run. You know, people who have gone through that are bound to have some psychological issues. Fortunately, she didn't really go crazy, so don't panic."

This explains why she was so jealous of Ye Yixian and Wang Qingyu; it turns out that her difficult childhood left her with psychological trauma.

Pineapple Bro and she were colleagues and fellow students, and they had a physical relationship, but they were not officially dating. It's possible that this was a form of self-protection for Pineapple Bro.

"Has she found her real family yet?" Gao Zhe asked in surprise. "Logically speaking, with your current resources, finding her biological parents shouldn't be difficult, right?"

"Of course she could find it, but she doesn't want to."

Pineapple Bro spoke casually, or rather, Xiao Zhuo had always had an indifferent attitude at the time, and he was just relaying the facts.

Then, Pineapple Bro talked about the past of the group he led. Each of them had an unusual experience and their own hardships.

In comparison, Pineapple Bro, who only dropped out of school to earn a living, is practically the happiest one in the whole team.

Finally, he earnestly reminded Lu Yuan and Gao Zhe: Cherish the life you have now; true happiness is the happiness you can grasp.

Lu Yuan felt this deeply.

Going out and making a name for oneself like Pineapple Bro is certainly cool and has a story to tell. But in the end, most of them don't have a good ending.

Lu Yuan had a choice, so naturally he didn't need to embark on this path of no return.

As they chatted, the topic eventually circled back to Xiao Zhuo.

Pineapple Bro said that Xiao Zhuo had learned some martial arts and was no longer afraid of ordinary thugs. With her by her side, Ye Yixian and Wang Qingyu would definitely not be in danger.

When the word "danger" was mentioned, all three of them fell silent.

If there is no external danger, then shouldn't we check if there is any internal danger?

Lu Yuan reassured himself that even if Ye Yixian and Xiao Zhuo didn't get along, nothing serious would happen. After all, they probably wouldn't see each other again after the New Year.

They are two people who are destined not to have much interaction.

"Brother Yuan, Xiao Zhuo is just a little xenophobic, don't worry about her," Pineapple Brother said with a smile. "Once you get to know her better, she'll definitely protect you."

"It will probably take some time to get to know her; we still don't even know her name."

Despite saying that, Lu Yuan didn't want Ye Yixian to get close to a woman like Xiao Zhuo at all. Heaven knows what trouble it might cause if they became close.

"Her name is a bit strange; she chose it herself, and it's hard to pronounce, so we all just call her Xiao Zhuo."

"Oh? How strange?" Gao Zhe became interested.

"Hehe, her name is Three Fires."

"Three fires? What kind of strange name is that?"

"No, I didn't explain clearly. Her surname is Zhuo, and her given name is only one character, which is composed of three fire radicals. As you know, I'm not very educated, and I've forgotten how to pronounce some of the less common characters."

As he spoke, Pineapple Brother dipped his finger in the tea and wrote the character "焱" on a napkin, which he referred to as "three fires".

Upon seeing this, Gao Zhe couldn't help but tease, "So much fire, what's wrong? Is she lacking the fire element in her Five Elements?"

"Hey! Brother Zhe, you're absolutely right!" Brother Pineapple slapped his thigh excitedly. "You really guessed right. She told me she didn't have this name before, but then she met a fortune teller who said she lacked the element of fire in her five elements, so she changed it to this one. By the way, how do you pronounce this character again?"

"It's pronounced the same as the 'flame' in 'fire'," Lu Yuan said calmly.

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly remembered the fortune teller he had met in Beijing some time ago. The fortune teller said that Ye Yixian was destined to face a calamity related to "fire".

fire……

Yan...

So many fires.

Could it be that……

Lu Yuan's heart sank suddenly, and an ominous premonition surged up.

Just then, the door to the private room was suddenly pushed open.

Wang Qingyu stood at the door, panting heavily, her face streaked with tears, her voice trembling:

"Lu Yuan, Zhe-ge... Something terrible has happened... Yi Xian... Something's happened to her..."