Livia x Ricciardi

Livia x Ricciardi is the het between Livia Lucani and Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi from the Inspector Ricciardi fandom.

Love at first sight
Livia and Ricciardi meet in the worst possible circumstance: the murder of Arnaldo Vezzi, Livia's husband, a murder that Ricciardi must investigate as police commissioner. Their first meeting takes place right at the police station, where Livia is interrogated by Ricciardi, despite not being a suspect since when her husband was killed she was at home in Rome and he was on tour in Naples, the city where Ricciardi works.

Arnaldo was a horrible man who had blamed Livia for the death of their son which was actually due to an illness and who constantly cheated on her, and Livia no longer loved him. The woman immediately feels attracted to the commissioner and during their meetings she tries to make him understand that she would like to talk to him about something other than Arnaldo's murder, but Ricciardi does not attempt to flirt with her in the slightest, nor does he seem to understand her interest in him, despite Livia being a beautiful woman. Ricciardi ignores Livia (and women in general) for a reason: he is able to perceive the spirits of those who die a violent death by seeing and hearing them the last thing they saw or thought before dying. This power of his has completely alienated him from normal life even if it sometimes helped him in his work and since he inherited this ability from his mother, he is determined never to marry and never have children because he does not want to condemn anyone to live among the dead as he does (Ricciardi and Livia live in the 1930s, violent death was much more common than now and the "echoes" of dead people remain even for months, so Ricciardi is continually surrounded by ghosts). Sometimes Ricciardi thinks he is crazy and is so firm in his decision that despite feeling attracted to his neighbor Enrica Colombo he has never tried to establish contact with her. Obviously he has never confessed this to anyone, but Livia understands that he has something that makes him suffer.

Livia decides to stay in the city until the investigations are completed and remains obsessed with the thought of Ricciardi the entire time. After a few days Ricciardi goes to Livia in the hotel and tells her that he has discovered the murderer's motive: it was a girl who killed Arnaldo that he got pregnant and who he had told her that he didn't care about her and their child and her boyfriend. he took the blame for the girl.

Not wanting to see two young lives ruined because of a degenerate like Vezzi, nor for the child to grow up in poverty, Ricciardi proposes to her boyfriend to declare that the child is his and that Vezzi had attempted to rape the woman, so he will obtain the extenuating circumstances and the girl will not have her reputation ruined and she will not lose her job. To make the story credible it is necessary for Livia to testify and publicly declare that Arnaldo was capable of behaving like this. Livia, who was very happy and excited by the policeman's arrival, comments that this would make her look like someone who accuses someone who can no longer defend himself, but in the end she convinces herself to do it for the unborn child and for Ricciardi.

Livia then asks Ricciardi about his hopes for the future and to share with her an indirect request for a relationship, but he replies that she is beautiful, young and rich and that she has every right to start a new life, but that for him this is not the time.

Once the trial is over, Livia returns to Rome where she lives, but can't stop thinking about Ricciardi; the latter instead returns to his usual life without dedicating a single thought to the widow.

Fanon
Livia x Ricciardi is a fairly popular ship also because it was part of the pivotal love triangle of almost the entire series. It is the rival of Enrica x Ricciardi and Bianca x Ricciardi.

Many fans did not appreciate Enrica's character very much, considering her dull, and hoped that the commissioner would choose Livia. After Enrica's death, fans hoped that the two could end up together in the end.