"Pfft!" Xiao Yilin suddenly burst into laughter, seemingly unable to hold it back.
Everyone looked at him in unison. Perhaps realizing that his laughter had drawn everyone's attention, he clenched his hand into a fist and held it under his chin, coughed, and said with embarrassment, "I apologize, I just remembered a joke and couldn't help but laugh out loud!"
Upon hearing this, Shui Youran's face turned green.
Who couldn't decipher the subtext of his words? His reference to a joke was clearly making fun of her denial of the incident. As an elite of the Shui Family, which was the second most influential family in the Capital City, he must have known whether Shui Youran was truly unaware of the story—after all, she was one of the main protagonists in it.