Disclaimer: I don't own Miraculous Ladybug, neither Love o2o and the novel.
FIRST I wanted to tell you that on Twitter ( Little_Rain0048) I am uploading images of the characters and some of their info, as well as the cover of the story with better quality. I also publish every time I update.
Second glance
[Ladybug]: By the way, how did you know that Ibiscus was on a serial quest?
[ChatNoir]: I saw him asking in the public chat about some sacred books.
[ChatNoir]: he asked about some very specific ones and I remembered that for mission 58 is a requirement to have them.
[ChatNoir]: later I verified it in the official guide to be sure.
[Ladybug]: Oh, I understand.
[Ladybug]: But why didn't you face him back then?
[ChatNoir]: at what point does a player feel more desperate in serial missions?
[Ladybug]: ...
[Ladybug]: OH! Hahaha, ChatNoir, you really wanted to see him in that state right?
[Ladybug]: You waited until the last mission to remind him this feeling for the rest of his life.
[Ladybug]: This time you won, kitty.
[Ladybug]: The truth is that I was somewhat worried about some issues at uni and I needed to calm down a bit.
[Ladybug]: thanks to you those feelings are gone.
[ChatNoir]: thanks to me?
[Ladybug]: hahaha even if you don't believe it, yes
[Ladybug]: thanks
[ChatNoir]: it's nothing
[ChatNoir]: It's my duty to protect you after all.
Outside the game, two young people are smiling, reading each other's messages.
[TropicalWeather]: Stormy!
[RainyWeather]: Stormy! Century!
Far from the Tower of the Five Pillars, the three girls from the WeatherForce clan meet StormyWeather and CenturyWarrior on a date at the Butterfly Meadow. The three of them come running and start telling Stormy what happened.
[SnowyWeather]: You won't believe what just happened.
[RainyWeather]: Ladybug and ChatNoir have been harassing us again!
[StormyWeather]: Didn't I told you not to approach them so we won't get into trouble?
[StormyWeather]: Soon we're going to join Century's guild.
[StormyWeather]: we can't cause problems now!
[TropicalWeather]: but they were taking advantage of the low levels, we had to help him!
CenturyWarrior just read the conversation. After some complaints, RainyWeather suggested making a video mocking Ladybug and uploading it in the game's forum.
[CenturyWarrior]: a video?
[RainyWeather]: Yes, there is a video competition in the forum.
[SnowyWeather]: the winners will receive a rainbow couple outfit!
[TropicalWather]: it's a perfect opportunity.
[TropicalWeather]: We will take our revenge on Ladybug and the you will receive the for being the ideal couple.
A short silence, it seems that the couple is thinking about it.
[CenturyWarrior]: I don't think it's necessary.
[CenturyWarrior]: do we have to expose her to all the players?
[StormyWeather]: Mhmm...
[StormyWeather]: Although the suit is pretty, I don't think we should expose Ladybug.
[CenturyWarrior]: aaww
[CenturyWarrior]: My beloved, you are so lovable.
[CenturyWarrior]: Still, we can make the best video and win the costume you deserve.
The couple exchanges some looks of affection and Century returns to speak to her.
[CenturyWarrior]: I have to disconnect soon.
[CenturyWarrior]: I have a meeting later with my cousin.
[CenturyWarrior]: Do you think it's okay to have a date tomorrow?
Stormy just says yes, she seems to be spellbound watching her boyfriend through the screen. They both say goodbye and just the four girls from the WeatherForce clan are left. Although the idea of humiliating Ladybug had already been rejected, the three resentful women continued to insist on the leader.
[RainyWeather]: Stormy!
[RainyWeather]: Even though you two are also a couple in real life, nothing ensures that Ladybug won´t try to intrude!
[SnowyWeather]: Yeah! What happens if that girl tries to steal your husband?
[StormyWeather]: ...
[TropicalWeather]: we better get rid of her as soon as possible!
[TropicalWeather]: we can't allow her to get in the way of true love!
...
[StormyWeather]: what do you have in mind?
"I've finished fixing your computer."
Upon hearing this, Lila Rossi storms out from the computer room. The green-eyed spent half an hour frowning on one of the tables in the living room. Why didn't Adrien come? They had planned everything in detail, why did this guy come alone?
Meanwhile, Colette remained in the room, who was a little nervous; and Kim, who started to save his things in his backpack to retire at once. Why did he think this was a good idea? It was obvious that they both only wanted Adrien and nothing with him. What a waste of time, even in the middle of the repair, he realized that the computer was in perfect condition. It seems that the girls had only taken one piece which I he had to put back, so he couldn't entertain with that either! Really... 2D girls are much better.
"Oh, wait a moment please!" Kim was stopped (rather, blocked) by Colette. "Thanks for helping... but by any chance, did you tell Adrien that Lila's computer was damaged?"
Was she going to keep insisting? At this rate his patience would be finished, so he decided to answer fast to be able to leave already. "Yep."
He tried to retire again but Colette made it more difficult.
"What?! And he knew it was Lila's computer? "
"Yep"
"And yet he didn't come?"
"Hey, it's better if Lila looks for him if she wants to talk to him."
"What?! N-no no hahaha, why would Lila have to talk to him... ha ha. "
Kim rolls her eyes and tries to leave for the third time. "I'm done so I'm leaving~" This time he decides to ignore Colette and leaves the room. A few moments after when he is no longer around, Lila returns annoyed to the room.
"You said Adrien would come!"
"I thought if he found out your computer was damaged, he would come..." Colette tries to calm her by giving her a bottle of water.
"It's all your fault, now I'm going to look desperate."
"O-oh no no! Actually his friend told me that... he was very busy and could not come, he really regrets it... you'll have another chance. "
"..."
"I know! How about we relax a little and go to a spa or restaurant? "
Just then, Lila's cell phone starts ringing. "It's my cousin" she says before answering.
"Hello cousin." Lila changes her tone of voice to a pout.
"Oh? What's up with that tone? Did something happen to my favorite cousin?" A male voice is heard on the other side of the phone. "How about we go out to dinner today? You can bring your friend."
"Mmm I don't know. I'm in a bad mood. "Lila continues pouting until Colette tells her in a low voice. "Say yes, maybe we can ask him for some advice about men."
"Okay. Camillo? It better be the best dinner ever. "
"Hahahaha, of course, you can choose the place."
"Woah... this place is great, I wanted to come here a few days ago. Thank you very much for inviting us, Mr. Rossi." Colette looks at the place with the eyes of a little girl. The restaurant is really big, with luxury decorations and large gardens. The three are in one of the private rooms with view and exit to the garden.
"It's a good place, it's possible that I'll come back another time." Lila's cousin answers politely. "You can call me Camillo, 'Mr. Rossi' makes me sound like my father."
Camillo Rossi 25 years of age, average height and son of Massimo Rossi, director of Neo Akuma. At first glance, the Rossi cousins look like siblings: the same color of hair, similar skin tone and elongated eyes. The only difference would be the eye color, while Lila's were green, Camillo's were gray. Camillo Rossi works in Neo Akuma, being the director's son; however, he doesn't focus much on work and prefers to stay in his office playing on the computer. Despite this, several girls have confessed him their love, either because of his appearance or the size of his wallet. Among his favorite games is Miraculous Voyage, in which he has an account under the alias of CenturyWarrior. When he saw the photo of StormyWeather in the forum he decided to send her a private message and tried to win her little by little. When they met in person, Camillo asked her to be his girlfriend with a bunch of flowers after the first date. It was at that time when he decided to divorce Ladybug, at the end, many rumors of the red heroin began to spread and didn't want to be involved.
Returning to the subject of the dinner, Lila is sitting in front of her cousin with her eyes down and her lips pressed in line. Colette looks nervous between the two cousins and decides to talk to her friend: "Lila, why don't you tell him what is bothering you?"
"Ohhh, is there something wrong?"
Lila remains silent and turns her head to one side. Colette keeps insisting. "Lila... if you tell him, Camillo could advise you."
"A secret?" Camillo looks at his cousin's pout with amusement. "Let me guess... Is it about a boy?"
Lila's eyes open wider, as if he had discovered something he shouldn't have.
"Oohhh, it is about a boy. Problems with love?"
Lila doesn't move from her place, it seems she will not say anything, so Colette decides to tell what happened to Camillo. She explains who Adrien is and what they have tried to do to get his attention. Seeing his cousin somewhat down, he decides to comment: "That guy doesn't sound so special and seems to have bad eyesight. With your appearance, personality, family and belongings, how is it possible that he doesn't notice you?"
"Don't speak of him like that! He is a genius, handsome and mature. He's perfect! "Lila reproaches him.
"He seems to be arrogant. You say he's somewhat cold, but I bet you its pure vanity. What did you say his name was?"
"Adrien Agreste."
"Agreste?" Camillo looks at them intrigued. "Adrien Agreste, the CEO of Lucky Charm Tech?"
"Do you know him?"
"A little. It seems that my father is thinking of buying his company. It is a good offer, after all, they are still students and the facilities of the university must be very basic. "
The two girls lit up their faces.
"So, Adrien would work on Neo Akuma?"
"Sure, in the video game department."
Colette began to whisper in Lila's ear. "Isn't it the perfect opportunity? Ask your uncle for a job in the company and you can get close to Adrien. "
"Uncle! It's been a while since last I saw you. "
"Lila! What brings you here?"
It is already the next day and Lila arrives at Neo Akuma together with Camillo. They are now on the top floor, at the office of director Massimo Rossi. Camillo was the one who started talking to him.
"Yesterday I was talking to Lila and she mentioned that she was looking for internships in some companies. Then I remembered that our company has some, could you give her one?"
"An internship? Aren't you studying administration? This is a technology company..."
Lila speaks to her in a sweeter tone: "Uncle... I believe that experience is experience, no matter how. I can work as your assistant if you want!"
Massimo seems to think a little. After a few more charms, his uncle accepts with the condition that his grades don't go down so that her parents won't get upset. She decides to start working from that moment.
"Are you sure? Now I'm going to have a meeting with Lucky Charm Tech... "
"YES!"
When her uncle moves away to talk to one of the workers of the company, Lila takes advantage to push his cousin out of the office.
"Hey! I also want to see how is these Adrien."
"No! For now I want to be alone with him..."
"Can you believe it?" Kim recounted his story to Adrien on the way to Neo Akuma. Due to classes, Nino and Luka couldn't attend the meeting. "When she realized you weren't going to come she completely ignored me."
"Well, it's not like you expected her to pay attention to you..."
"Hey!"
"You can continue talking later, we're going to arrive."
Upon entering through the main door of the company both are surprised to see the amount of people there. It's normal to see several people working, but there are lots of young people with papers in their hands waiting in the waiting room. One of the workers explains that that day was the interviews for the internships that began in half an hour. The same employee indicates where to go for the meeting with the CEO, the two guys follow him and they get on the elevator.
"I'm too nervous!"
"Rose, calm down."
"That never helps!"
The four girls have just arrived at Neo Akuma and sit on one of the sofas in the waiting room. Alya is reviewing her introductory lines and Chloè is finishing her makeup. When the first interviewees came out, Alya took the opportunity to ask them what questions they were asking. They were told some typical questions, but one of them got their attention.
"Marinette!" Alya runs to her group and whispers, "They're asking if we play role games and the name of our accounts."
"Role games? But I don't play that kind of games." Chloè and Rose looked at each other. The only one in the group that played that was Marinette.
"Don't worry, you can use my subaccounts." Marinette begins to explain the basic rules of the game, the name of the characters and some other details.
"Then RenaRouge uses magic of illusions." Alya tries to confirm for the third time.
"And QueenBee uses hand-to-hand combat."
"Why PrincessFragrance? PinkUnicornPrincess sounds better..."
Marinette lets out a sigh. "I just told you the basics. If you need more information later, I'll tell you."
"NUMBER 23, ROSE LAVILLANT."
"IT'S ME!" Rose stands stiffly and marches towards one of the interview offices while her friends wish her luck.
A few minutes later, Rose comes out with a pale face. "Marinette, I ruined it."
"What? Didn't you speak well?"
"No... Everything was fine until they asked me the name of the account... and I only remembered PinkUnicornPrincess! Not only that, because I didn't want to say a non-existent account, so I spilled Ladybug's name..."
Marinette listens carefully. Rose told them she was Ladybug? If it was only for the interview it's not much of a problem, in the end she can say that her account is PrincessFragrance. The blue-haired calmly explained her that is not a big deal and decides to review her papers for the last time.
Adrien and Kim enter to Massimo's office and formally greet each other. The following happens as all the meetings: the director lets them pass, offers them a seat and starts talking about business. Just before they reached the main topic, Lila enters the room with a tray with cups of tea and coffee.
"Oh right, you guys go to "A" University, right?" Massimo asks them.
"Yes we are in our last year."
"What a coincidence! My niece also studies there, in second year. I know she's very popular, Lila come here for a moment."
Smiling, Lila approaches to the side of her uncle. "Lila has just started working as my assistant, I guess you know each other?"
Lila, who was about to answer, is cut by Adrien who answers first: "I'm sorry, I don't think I've seen her before."
An uncomfortable silence. If Lila had been smiling from ear to ear, at this moment it was the opposite. You have never seen me?! But there are thousands of photos of her circulating in the forum! Also, who doesn't know about her? She is the goddess of the campus!
Kim, who was at the side of a carefree Adrien, tried to contain his laughter. What a way to lower the ego to the girl!
"O-oh well, I guess the campus is very big after all..." Massimo tries to cut the atmosphere. "Returning to the subject, we wanted to offer five million for rights; obviously all of you would have high pay... "Massimo and his male assistant continued explaining about the contract.
Pay for the rights. When they mentioned that, the two boys realized what these people wanted. They were not going to help them, they wanted to buy the game, the ideas and the whole company. Not only that, they even insinuated in a very subtle way that even if they rejected it they could take over their idea and leave them with nothing. These people! Compared to Kim who tried not to stand up from his seat and punch the CEO, Adrien kept his face just as serious. When the owner of Neo Akuma finished speaking, Adrien gave them the excuse that they had to think well with all their companions. After saying goodbye, the two university students left the office and went to the elevator.
"Do they think we are idiots in believing all this?!" Kim exclaims in a low voice "Do they think they can buy us just like that? And the worst of all is that they insinuate that they can steal the idea and the game. Hey, why didn't you reject the offer instead of giving them hope? "
"I lied to them"
"YOU LI-" Kim lowered his tone again "Did you lie? You would only have rejected them."
Adrien smiles at him. "If they want to use those measures, then we will too. You don't have to worry."
Kim smiles excitedly. "Ohhh, you have a plan. A sinister and cunning plan. What would we do without that brain of yours, boss? Now I feel bad for them." After this, the elevator arrives and both are about to enter when Lila arrives running and calls Adrien. With an 'I´ll wait at the first floor', Kim climbs alone to the elevator and leaves Adrien at the mercy of the brunette.
"Miss Rossi, did the president forget anything?"
"No, I only wanted to talk to you." Lila straightens her hair. "My uncle is a bit old-fashioned, if you didn't like his conditions, I can ask him to change them."
"It's not necessary, that's the way business is." Adrien responds politely. "Also, with your position I don't think it's adequate."
Lila without knowing what to say, play a little with her clothes thinking about her next line. But apparently it's too late and the elevator returns, Adrien says goodbye and the elevator doors close again.
"Is that the one you like?" Camillo appears behind Lila. "He's just a kid who thinks he's the best. I don't think your will parents approve."
"It doesn't matter. I want him and my parents will have to accept it. I'm the only one that matters. "
"I thought you would take longer to get down." The two boys meet in Neo Akuma's waiting room.
"Let's go back." Adrien was stopped by Kim, who asked him some questions with a mischievous smile.
"Oh no, what did the campus beauty tell you? Did she confess to you?"
Another smile "If you used that imagination for the game it would be much better."
It was at that moment when he saw her again. Sitting at some tables away of them, the cyber-cafe girl was reading some papers. He recognized the blue hair tied in a high ponytail and the pink backpack of that same day. However, this time he could see her face. She was much more than he had imagined. How was it possible for a person to look so good in casual clothes by reading some papers? A few meters away from him was Ladybug, the girl he hadn't been able to get out of his thoughts just by watching her play once. It sounds a bit pathetic.
Apparently Adrien has been watching for a few seconds because Kim realizes that he is no longer paying attention to him. When he turns to see what has left his hypnotized friend, he manages to see a girl sitting in the distance.
"Woah... today we're in luck."
"What?" Adrien tries to prevent Kim from seeing him in that state by turning his face away.
"First we saw the campus beauty and now the department beauty is here. We should buy a lottery ticket."
He asks confused: "Apartment beauty?"
"Yes. The girl with the blue hair ponytail. "Kim points turns to her." Her name is Marinette Dupain Cheng and she's a sophomore. During the beauty contest last year, she was second on campus and first in our department. It brought us quite honor, since she showed that in Science there are also beauties. Although the result was a little controversial, since her photo was of low quality. I assure you that she could have finished first if it wasn't for that."
"Marinette... it's a good name."
Adrien stays smiling again. How can you not? He has just learned the name of the girl who has been driving him crazy and better yet, he has just learned that they are not only in the same university, but in the same department.
"Wow, I really have to buy a ticket today." Kim interrupts his thoughts.
"Ah? Why?"
"Not only have I seen two beauties today, I've also seen you smile and say the name of a girl. Could it be that the end of the world is coming? My life is complete!"
Adrien lets out a small laugh and the two turn towards the exit. "Department beauty suits her..." More than that, it fits perfectly.
Author notes
Yessss. This chapter was long, but at least Adrien already knows who his wife is! I just want to tell you again that you can see pictures and some more character data on Twitter ( Little_Rain0048) as well as a better quality of the cover of the story. About the university info, A University students have only 3 years, so Mari and her group are in second and Adrien and the guys are in third. Also, the story is available on Wattpad now. Thanks for reading!