Had he expected anything came from taking a ride through the woods to lead to a hidden house and this kind of romance, Adrien would've done it sooner.

"Whoa boy!" He called, stopping by a river to get a drink for him and his horse.

Little did he know of a telescope that watched him through the trees.

"Adrien! It's time to go back! I'm getting hungry!" Plagg, Adrien's kwami exclaimed, flying out from his coat.

"Come on, Plagg. We ate not too long ago. We have this whole forest to explore. Can't you think about anything but food?"

"I'm fading away... so weak..." Plagg groaned and stopped flying to fall into Adrien's hand and strike a dramatic pose.

The blonde chuckled and shook his head before turning to the pack attached to his horse saddle.

"Luckily, I've known you for a while and know how to plan ahead." Adrien explained as he took out a container if camembert, which was immediately by the cat kwami.

Adrien chuckled and climbed onto his horse and began to make his way through the trees. It hadn't been too long since they left the river that something looking through the bushes spooked the horse. Adrien, being ad graceful as he was, fell off the horse and onto the ground. Sitting up and rubbing his head, the blonde looked around to see a small orange fox kwami floating a few inches in front of his face.

"Trixx? What are you doing here?" Plagg asked, peeking out at the kwami.

Trixx said nothing before taking a few moments to observe the two boys only too zoom off through the trees. It was only a few seconds and an exchanged look before the two scrambled to chase after her. Running through the trees, Adrien was more dependent on Plagg then his own eyes to tail the fox kwami. By the time they found a clearing, Adrien was blown away by the sight in front of him. A large house of chinese style in beautiful pastel colors.

"Plagg, have you seen this place before?" Adrien asked, look up at the kwami, who was still looking around for Trixx. "Plagg!"

"Ah! What?"

"Do you recognize this place?" Adrien asked again.

"No, I've never been here before. But I can feel a lot of other kwami's around here."

Adrien nodded and began to walk around the building. The place was beautiful. It was strange to see a chinese palace just outside of Paris but Adrien could see some hints of french culture around the structure. Tall pillars and balcony's but paper doors and a walkway that seemed to go around the entire building. Adrien seemed surprised to the fact that the building was quiet and peaceful. Shouldn't a palace of this size be full of busy servants? A sudden gasp snapped caused him to turn to see a girl standing with a hand covering her mouth and wearing a red silk dress. A long red skirt and red sleeves that clung to her upper arms with bands that had gold accents to them. The gold and red bands also acted as straps over her shoulders and meeting over her chest in a v shape. There were some hints of pink along the fabrics that made up her fluttering sleeves and skirt. A red choker around her neck with gold accents and a pearl hanging from a loop of metal in the center. Around her thin waist, she had a strap of silk wrapped around and tied in the front while the hanging fabric flowed down to join the skirt. She had short black hair with a blueish tone to it and two large, red flowers attached to golden bands clipped to the sides of her hair. Her bright blue eyes that were currently staring at him in shock. The two stood in shocked silence until the girl turned to start running, the back of her kimono trailing behind her. Adrien moved quickly to catch up with her before jumping over the railing and grabbing the girls wrist. The girl opened her mouth to scream only for Adrien to cover her mouth.

"Please don't scream. I'm not going to hurt you, I swear." He spoke quickly.

A small, red, ladybug kwami rushed to his face, causing him to fall back and release the girl.

"你是谁？你从哪里来？你怎么找到我的？" The girl asked, gaining confidence as she glared at the boy.

Adrien gaped at the girl before Plagg flew forward, towards the ladybug kwami.

"Tikki!"

Tikki gasped before pulling the cat kwami into a tight hug.

"Plagg! I've missed you! How did you get here?" She said, speaking perfect french while the girl continued to stare at Adrien, who stood.

"Trixx lead us here before she disappeared."

"And who are you?" Tikki asked, turning to face Adrien.

"My name is Adrien Agreste."

Adrien couldn't help but blush when he heard the girl mumble his name under her breath, as if testing it out on her lips.

"Nice to meet you. This is Marinette." Tikki said as the girl nodded. "She doesn't speak french very well but she can understand it."

At this, Marinette rushed forward and grabbed Adrien's hand in hers, her eyes lighting up.

"你会说法语吗？你可以教我吗？请？" She asked.

Adrien could feel his cheeks heating up as confusion boggled his mind. Tikki giggled.

"She wants you to teach her french." She explained.

Adrien looked down at the beautiful girl's pleading eyes and gave a soft smile.

"Sure."

Her felt his heart pound at the girls smile.

Later, Adrien had managed to teach Marinette a few words before he had to leave. After Marinette had to go inside, Tikki explained that Marinette wasn't supposed to talk to anyone outside the palace. Her parents were extremely protective protective of their daughter so it was important that he doesn't get seen so whenever he came by, he was to send Plagg into the palace to find Tikki to get Marinette. Adrien nodded, determined to see the chinese girl again.

If you wanna see what Marinette's dress looks like, use the link below. Just take out the spaces. I googled Chinese dresses and this picture popped up. I fell in love with it since I could never, in my wildest dreams, imagine this. So I used it.

Note: I discovered that the link I put for the image didn't work so I used the image I found as my cover photo. So hopefully, ya'll can see it now