Chapter 277 Garden Villa

The road from Naples to Rome was quite good, wide enough for four carriages to travel side by side, and the road surface was very solid, so Qin Mo didn't feel too much of a bumpy ride in the carriage.

Giulio Medici, sitting opposite the carriage, looked utterly helpless. Qin Mo's earlier remark, "I'm not a count, so you can be a little presumptuous!" had completely ignited Elisa's fury. If Giulio hadn't desperately held her back, a brawl would have broken out on the docks. That damned butler, Borini, was even clamoring to find connections within the Knights Order, only to be slapped senseless by Giulio.

Although Giulio managed to control the situation, he offended his cousin. While the Stanislavsky and Medici families had been related by marriage for generations, it was absolutely intolerable for her to have her butler disciplined by her cousin; it was a great disrespect to her.

Qin Mo and her entourage eventually boarded Giulio's carriage, while Giulio's entourage and belongings remained at the dock, awaiting his belated sailboat. Elisa's men followed closely behind in three empty carriages.

"Julio, sometimes simply compromising and tolerating won't bring you the love you desire, because you can't tolerate her forever. If you stop being tolerant after marriage, the huge gap will make her feel that you no longer love her, and the consequences..."

Everyone could see Giulio's affection for Elisa, but only Giulio failed to notice Elisa's indifference towards him. Perhaps this is a common problem for people who are deeply in love!

"Qin Mo, I trust my intuition. You are a nobleman of the Great Xia Dynasty, and a very wealthy one at that. But you can't joke about something like a title. In the Western Continent, that's very disrespectful. If you're exposed, your reputation will be ruined, and the Holy Temple will expel you."

Qin Mo could only smile at Juliao's heartfelt advice. Although they had initially met through business, Qin Mo felt that this young man from Xizhou was worth befriending. At least he was willing to make enemies to save face for his friends, which went beyond the scope of ordinary business partners.

"Believe me, Giulio, when your wealth is piling up like a mountain, the patriarch of the Stellia family will send your cousin over, along with a substantial dowry."

Giulio forced a smile and said, "I hope so!"

Rome, the center of the entire Western Continent, without exception.

The walls of Rome are damaged and missing in many places, which are traces left in the struggle with the orcs. The temple left them like this to warn the world that the danger has not passed. The orcs are still breathing in the north, gathering the strength to fight back.

Rome presented a completely different scene. For six hundred years, the orcs had not been able to reach Rome. The comfortable life made the romantic Romans pay more attention to life. Buildings of various styles stood in the city, and whimsical statues were scattered in every street and alley, which made Qin Mo sigh with admiration.

“Lek Wieger once told me that Rome was the most artistic place in the West. I didn’t believe it at the time, but today I think he was right.”

After entering the city, Qin Mo walked around, stopping frequently to look at the buildings and touch the sculptures, behaving like a typical tourist.

"Hey! Qin Mo, you're wrong. The city with the most artistic atmosphere is definitely not Rome, but Florence. For the past two hundred years, Florence and Venice have been the paradise of artists. Rome... has too much of a temple atmosphere and lacks the air of freedom."

Qin Mo glanced at a knight statue on the street corner and asked without looking up, "Then why did you come all the way from Florence to the Roman temple?"

“I am a devout follower of the Temple. I have come to the Temple to seek divine guidance and to pay homage to the footsteps of the sages,” Giulio said firmly, a “holy” light shining on his face.

Qin Mo stopped teasing him and let him hypnotize himself. In fact, Rome and the capital of Great Xia had many similarities, the biggest commonality being... the strong aura of power.

No city with a strong power center is the most livable city. Prices are high, housing prices are high, and traffic is congested, but people still scramble to get in. All of this is due to the influence of "power" and status.

Just as Qin Mo was admiring the statue of a naked beauty, Elisa's carriage stopped beside him, and the curtain was lifted to reveal her veiled face. "Your Excellency Qin Mo, we've taken the wrong road. The temple isn't in this direction."

Elisa's voice was cold, and Qin Mo's voice was naturally even colder, "You decide your direction, and I decide where I go."

"Your Excellency Qin Mo, I believe you understand what I mean. Going to the temple immediately is the best option to clear up the misunderstanding between us."

"Misunderstanding? Miss Elisa, it's your misunderstanding, not mine. I haven't misunderstood anyone else." Qin Mo ignored her and continued walking, occasionally stopping to listen to the bard's singing and tossing out two silver coins to earn the bard's heartfelt blessings.

Elisa almost called the Templar Knights from the street corner, but she held back in the end. Causing trouble in the street would only damage the reputation of the Medici and Stanley families, not this hateful Easterner.

Elisa jumped off the carriage angrily and followed closely behind Qin Mo. She had endured for so long just to take Qin Mo to the temple. After all, the people from the Great Xia delegation had made it very clear that all the students from Great Xia who were going to the temple were there, exactly twenty people.

Qin Mo may not be a bad person; he may have just joked about the temple's invitation to show off. But as a member of the temple, I cannot allow the temple to be tainted in the slightest. Those who disrespect the temple must be severely punished, whether they are from Xizhou or Daxia.

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