I didn't know you were such a vampire

After Joya returned to the Orsini Palace, Adriana did not immediately arrange a course for her because of the long-distance journey, and Adriana asked her to stay in her house to recuperate for a period of time. .

It's been a long time since she stayed in the Orsini Palace. When the maids supported her and first stepped into this room, she looked around and felt a little strange.She threw off the maids who supported her, limped to the window, opened the window, and saw the verdant olive tree in the atrium and the poppies that were about to wither, little by little. The memory of the previous ten years was retrieved.

"Miss Qiao Ya, do you need to go back to bed and rest?" The voices of the maids woke her up from the state of trance, her pupils moved slightly, and she subconsciously said, "No... I'll read a book for a while..." At this time, when her eyes moved to the empty desk, she realized that the books she had brought to Florence were all left on the desk in Totti's mansion, piled up in a mess.

She suddenly lost her strength again, and then sat on the Dante chair placed in front of the desk.

At this time, Adriana walked into the room slowly, and the two maids behind Joya immediately saluted her, and then took a few steps back.

She wore a long black velvet dress with precious otter skins on her shoulders, and her auburn hair was braided and tied with beads.She has always been dressed in the most standard noble lady's dress in the Vatican, with the most social smile on her face, which is what she asked each of these children to do.

But this time, she didn't have a smile on her face, but went straight to the Casapanca bench behind Qiao Ya, and sat down by the armrest of the bench.

Qiao Ya didn't turn her head, but she knew that Adriana was staring at her back. After a while, she heard Adriana say slowly: "What's the matter with your foot injury?"

"Walking in high platform shoes is a bit urgent, and I got sprained." Qiao Ya replied without changing her expression.

"You have learned how to walk gracefully under high platforms since childhood." Adriana said.

Qiao Ya turned her head and smiled at Adriana: "It's just that she has always been very elegant, but occasionally she got a little impatient, and she sprained her ankle, and it won't take long for her to recover."

Adriana's face turned pale, and she relaxed the movement of holding on to the Casapanca bench. She waved her hand, motioned for a maid to bring some wine, and said, "I heard that your foot was injured. Thought you went to Florence and learned that Martina was running around like crazy all day long."

When Joya heard the name of Martina, the smile on her face instantly froze. She immediately adjusted her expression to look less abrupt, but Adriana didn't seem to notice the change in her face, she just said : "I heard about Martina."

Joya nodded.

"I don't know what you think of this biological mother during your trip to Florence, or what impact this biological mother has had on you, but you must remember one thing, and you will never forget it forever." Adria Na snapped, "You are the daughter of the Borgia family, you were born for the honor of the Borgia family!"

Qiao Ya hid her clenched hands in her long sleeves, then hooked the corners of her lips, and said, "I know." She paused for a while, and then smiled, "This sentence, I have been using it since I was three or four years old. I heard you say it."

But at that time, she didn't care about all of this.

She accepted everything that this era gave her and imposed on her, but relatively, she didn't care about what happened in this world, she didn't care about the honor of the so-called Borgia family, and naturally, she didn't care too much about herself.

If God had arranged her fate long ago, then she would just follow this path.

However, when she heard this sentence again, a very weak voice jumped out of her heart without knowing it.

"Then what do you want?"

Adriana took the wine brought by the maid, shaking the glass gently between her fingers, her tone softened a little, and said: "Your father is very busy these days, so he doesn't have time to visit you. But I know, you understand him, don't you?"

Qiao Ya nodded and said, "I know."

Adriana stood up holding the wine glass, walked to Qiao Ya, bent down slightly, looked at Qiao Ya's pale golden hair and beautiful face, smiled, and said: "You will definitely To be the pope's daughter."

Qiao Ya also smiled along with her, but the smile didn't reach her eyes.

After Adriana left for a long time, Lucrecia trotted up the steps in front of Joya's room with her skirt in hand. She walked around the Corinthian-style pillars in front of the door, bent her waist, and came to Joya's room. In front of the window, a sudden appearance was about to scare Qiao Ya, but she found that Qiao Ya was sitting by the window, resting her chin in one hand, looking at her with a smile in her eyes.

"Ah." Lucrecia wrinkled her nose, "It was discovered again."

Qiao Ya smiled and stretched out her hand to pat the top of her head, and said, "You still play this trick for so many years, don't you know that you have grown taller?"

Lucrecia touched the top of her head and said with a smile, "Ah, so I have grown taller! Father must be very happy to know!"

Seeing Lucrezia's happy face, Joya narrowed the smile on her face, and heard the little girl chattering again: "Joya, you don't even know how sad I am during this time, you went to Florence, Chesa Ray went to Pisa. My father seems to be very busy recently. He hasn’t visited me for several weekends. It’s just me, Juan, who hates me, and Geoffrey, who dare not speak. I memorized a lot of books..."

Qiao Ya touched the soft hair on the top of her head and said, "Endorsement is a good thing."

"Wow!" Lucrezia wrinkled her nose again, "Joya, you are already in the same boat as Adriana!"

Qiao Ya let out a laugh, and then asked, "You said that your father hasn't seen you for a long time, do you know what he's been busy with recently?"

Lucrecia frowned, as if she was thinking about it, and it took a long time before she arrived: "It should be a matter of the Holy See, you know, the Pope has... died."

When Innocent VIII defeated Rodrigo Borgia and ascended to the Pope, he was already an old man suffering from illness. At that time, Joya's body was still young, and Rodrigo did not shy away from it. In front of her, there was resentment for her defeat. A man who usually looked scheming and deep in the city, slammed his pen on the ground and said through gritted teeth: "I actually lost to a frail and sick old guy! Next time, I will never lose!"

In fact, for Rodrigo, it might be a good thing that Innocent VIII was old and sick.

It is too difficult to wait for a young man to die unexpectedly, but it is much easier to wait for an old man to die of natural illness.

Adriana's phrase "You will definitely become the Pope's daughter" is her determination for Rodrigo.

The reason why Rodrigo ordered the priest to bring Joya back from Florence was also because, at such an important juncture, the pope's illegitimate daughter was more valuable and easier than a cardinal's illegitimate daughter. Find a more powerful match.

Qiao Ya's eyes darkened. She knew that Rodrigo, who was bound to win the pope, had quietly changed her marriage partner, and decisively replaced the previous fiancé whom she had never met and whose name he did not know. And ruthlessly abandoned.