Li Rong'er felt a surge of panic, but she managed to maintain a composed exterior. "How could I have followed him? If someone saw us, then they definitely must have seen that I went in a different direction than that man. I previously served as a maid in the Fang Mansion, and he is the housekeeper there. When he saw me, he was just greeting me, that's all. Brother Xiao, by acting this way, are you doubting me?"
Her eyes brimmed with tears, indicating how wronged she felt. "I came to you as a pure and clean woman, completely devoted to you, how could you not trust me?"
Xiao Yishan looked at her forthright expression and thought that if there was really something amiss, she wouldn't dare to make a scene on the street, so he believed her. Seeing passersby in the yard stopping to watch, he wrapped his arm around her shoulders, "Let's talk back in the room."
Inside the room of Elegant Garden at the Xiao Mansion, Li Rong'er sat at the table, her tears falling like rain.
