I didn't know you were such a vampire

When Qiao Ya first climbed the tower of the Orsini Palace and looked at the lights of the city of Rome, she had already had an indescribable emotion for the lights in the night sky, whether it was Rome or The sparkling lights on the Arno River that runs through Florence, every city, every kind of light, will have a different touch in her heart.

And the faint light from the window of the house in the center of Monteriggioni, in her eyes, is like a lighthouse in the stormy night, as long as she holds it, she can get a glimmer of light from the stormy sea. A chance to survive.

if only……

However, when she really stood in front of the gate, the gust of wind and rain from her chest seemed to stop suddenly. Her face was calm, and only the lights illuminated the water in her gray-blue eyes. She slowly He stretched out his right hand, pointed at the door with the knuckles on the back of his hand, and knocked it three times.

"Bang bang bang".

There was no movement in the house.

Suddenly, she couldn't bear the silence, so she switched to her palm again, and began to slap the door hard.

This way of knocking on the door is contrary to Adriana's teaching method in the first 15 years of her life. Not only does she lack aristocratic manners, but she is also somewhat hysterical.

She didn't know how long it took to knock, even after she had been tormented by that expectation many times, the door was finally opened from the inside, and the lights in the room couldn't wait to pour out, brushing her body, spreading across at her feet.

Her hands were frozen in mid-air, and when the cold wind of early spring gently curled the ragged hair around her ears from her side and brushed her cheeks, she shivered abruptly, and at the same time The distinctive cold feeling on both cheeks made her realize that she actually cried just now.

The hand that was stretched out in mid-air to knock on the door twisted back, wiped the tear stains on his face with the back of his hand, then raised his head and looked into the door.

Inside the crack of the door was a middle-aged woman's face, with some wrinkles around her eyes, but she could still see her delicate and pleasant appearance when she was young.

Holding the door with one hand, she looked at Qiao Ya who was standing outside the door curiously, and asked softly, "Excuse me... who are you looking for?"

Qiao Ya eased her heartbeat, let out a breath, regained some of her demeanor, and said, "I'm looking for Mr. Ezio Auditore." She paused, then said, "I'll see you in Florence I have passed him a few times, and I know he is an assassin, and I have something very important, and I want to ask him."

From the day she was invited by Count Pesaro to ride a horse together, Joya hardly had a good meal or slept once. When she was introduced into this villa by the lady who called herself Claudia, When I sat down on the upholstered chair, I was still in a daze. I always felt that as soon as I closed my eyes, I was going back to the carriage with the licorice stacks.

This is a grand and luxuriously decorated room. A gorgeous quartz chandelier hangs from the ceiling of the main hall. The candlelight fills this spacious room under the refraction of quartz and crystal.

When she took a glass of wine from Claudia with trembling hands, she finally broke free from the feeling of separation from body and soul. She lowered her head slightly, staring at the slightly rippling wine in the wine glass. After watching the light reflected on the water for a while, he raised the glass higher, put it against his lips, and took a sip of the wine in the glass carefully.

Claudia sat down on the chair next to Joya, looked at Joya's drinking posture, and looked at her slender wrist, which was covered with dust and mud, but could still see the white complexion under the dirt, After thinking about it, he said, "Little girl?"

Qiao Ya paused for a moment. She didn't expect her disguise to be perfect, but after being told the truth, she still felt a little bit disappointed.

Claudia seemed to see the shock and loss that flashed in her eyes, smiled, and said, "Even if you make your hair like this and speak with a low voice, you can still see some details of."

"Oh." Qiao Ya nodded, held the wine glass tighter in her hand, and said after deliberating, "The reason why I made myself like this is to make it easier to run out of the house. Arranged a marriage for me, seeing that I am very strict, I finally found the opportunity..."

Before she finished speaking, she caught a glimpse of Claudia's expression that seemed to be a little stiff out of the corner of her eye. She paused and stopped talking about why she ran to Monteriggioni in the image of a dirty tomboy , but said cautiously: "Ms. Claudia, may I ask... is there any question?"

The corners of Claudia's mouth twitched a few times. She seemed to be thinking for a while before opening her mouth with some difficulty: "Little girl, did you meet Ezio in Florence?"

"Yes." Qiao Ya nodded, "He is a good friend who grew up with my stepfather, I met him through my stepfather, he saved me, and..." Qiao Ya thought of being on the roof of Totti's mansion, Ezio quickly searched out a word in his mind for his outspoken remarks about smashing the window of his sweetheart, and then said, "He also had a...heart-to-heart talk with me."

Joya saw Claudia's eyelids visibly trembling, and she tapped the armrest of the wooden chair with some unease, and then said in a somewhat tactful tone: "Actually, Ezio, I feel sorry for him. I can't understand it any better, since he was young, he has been very good at making girls happy, even mature women in their 30s and [-]s are often attracted to him, let alone...a little girl like you."

"Oh." Qiao Ya nodded. Ricardo once expressed his knowledge of Ezio's long love history with a secretive smile. The stepdaughter of her old friend talked about her glorious history of slamming windows, so this passage from Claudia added her sincere admiration to Ezio:

Really worthy of the Italians.

After admiring, she honestly said: "I don't care." She wanted to find Marco through Ezio, but she really didn't care about how many girls Ezio had had since he was a child.

After Claudia said this, the expression on her face became even uglier. She even stood up from the chair and walked around in front of Qiao Ya with some irritability, as if she was thinking about something. , while Qiao Ya was holding a wine glass, looking up at Claudia hovering in front of her, the light of the chandelier flickered with Claudia's figure.

She didn't know what was bothering Claudia, but if it was because of her arrival that made others feel embarrassed, then she would bid farewell to Claudia immediately after asking about Ezio's whereabouts.

After Claudia walked back and forth a few times, she looked at Qiao Ya, who was sitting gracefully and obediently on the chair, exhaled, and then said earnestly: "Little girl, you said you know that Ezio is a Assassin, you also know that he is best at wooing women, so you should also know that he is destined to be a vagabond, and all he does is blood-licking work. He once went to Spain for two years, In the past two years, my mother and I can only know whether he is still alive through the letters he sent back. This kind of dreadful days not only tortured him, but also tortured us. What's more, he still has important things to do now. do, so..."

Qiao Ya raised her head and stared at her with her gray-blue eyes without blinking. She suddenly couldn't speak anymore, and took a step back as if discouraged.

At this moment, there were a few more knocks on the door, and Qiao Ya stood up reflexively. Before she had time to think about whether it was the guests from the Auditore family who rushed over or the Holy See guards who came to search for her, she went He heard a somewhat familiar male voice from outside the door: "Claudia, it's me."

It took Joya a few seconds to realize that the owner of the voice was Ezio Auditore she had come to look for this time, and Claudia, who was standing in front of her, had already carried the Hem skirt, stepping on high platform shoes, walked quickly to the door, opened the door, and the man in the white hood outside the door had just stepped one foot into the room when he encountered a heavy punch from Claudia on the shoulder.

"What's the matter, Claudia?" Ezio's voice was a little inexplicable and a little grievance that couldn't be heard without listening carefully.

Qiao Ya also drank the wine while poking her head to look at the gate.

"Ezio, look at what good things you have done again?" Claudia's voice was full of anger that she tried to suppress, "You can even kill such a young girl, your conscience is still Are you there? Being your sister makes me feel very ashamed..."

As soon as Claudia said this, the wine that Joya hadn't swallowed almost spewed out of her nasal cavity. She struggled to control the liquid and swallowed it back into the esophagus, stretched out a hand to pat chest, and let out a long breath.At this time, her eye sockets were already filled with physiological tears caused by resisting the urge to spray alcohol. When she was reaching out to wipe the tears, she heard Claudia complain again: "Look, little girls are crying!" Yes! Ezio, are you human?"

Joya: "..."

She felt that she still had to solve this misunderstanding and give Ezio a clean slate, so she stood up holding the wine glass, and walked a few steps towards the door, trying to comfort Claudia who was angry: "That ..."

As soon as she opened her mouth, she attracted the attention of Ezio who was explaining to Claudia. Ezio looked over Claudia's side face and looked at her. Tell Claudia: "Claudia, did you make a mistake, this is obviously a dirty brat, how could I provoke him?"

Joya: "..."

She didn't know whether she should be happy or throw the wine glass in her hand at the other party.