Adrien's thoughts, enjoy

Adrien was confused. That was an understatement, he was way past confused and into mind blown shock at this point. He didn't know where to even begin processing this.

Marinette was Ladybug? And she knew his identity? And she apparently has some terrible self-image problems that really need to be fixed if she thinks that she isn't good enough as Marinette. That was probably the most important part, he couldn't just let her think so lowly of herself.

The only issue was… She was partially right. Not that she is worthless as herself! No, not that. But the fact that he wouldn't of thought of her romantically before he knew she was Ladybug wasn't wrong. He still very much valued Marinette; she was his first friend he made at school after all. He agreed that they probably both needed time to reassess their feelings toward each part of each other, but he did not agree with what she said about him not caring about her as Marinette at all.

He was worried about how little she valued herself. He needed to help fix that somehow but didn't really know how to do that. But maybe Alya did.

Marinette is getting more people in her corner, whether she wants their help or not. Alya has known Mari was sad but with Adrien's intel there is no way the two of them are going to not try and help her.