Heavy Heart | Miraculous Ladybug

Careful Motives

It was eleven o'clock at night when Eric came back to the main house after going to a big club. He spent two days in Hong Kong meeting with Daiyu. When he first arrived he got told that she wasn't ready just yet to meet with him. So for two days he spent his time in Hong Kong. "Mr. Teng." Chris spoke in the doorway. "She wants to see you now."

He nodded his head with a slight grin and walked down the hallway while Chris walked ahead. Chris started to open the shoji slowly before whispering to Eric. "Don't put any ideas in her head, okay?"

"I won't, I won't." He chuckled carelessly, walking in while the shoji closed behind him. The room was dark and there sat Daiyu on the mat at the sliding window. He approached her and bowed. "Hello, Ms. Xiong what a pleasant night."

She tensed up at his words and anger grew inside of her. "Just shut up and sit besides me. I need to talk to you."

He walked over to her and sat down, not facing her direction. "Better now?"

She turned and faced him. She shuffled her way to face him and placed her hands on both sides of his face. His mischievous grin on his face shone in the moonlight and his grey eyes shined. "All what I ask for you is to be more kind. Be more kind." She spoke coldly while a vivid flashback occurred in her mind. "You...do you actually...that...woman..."

His eyes narrowed down at her with motives and his eyes showed nothing, but evil. She stopped and removed her hands from his face. There she sat back in her spot looking out the window. "Eric, I wanted to talk to you about how well the business is going?"

"Oh, it's going well. Of course I couldn't let you down since I work for your needs...am I right?"

"You disgust me." She snapped.

"Yet you care." She gave him a sickening look before turning away. She heard him reach in his pocket and grab something.

"Anyways, since we are alone and together...how is your day?" She looked to face him and her heart almost stopped. It was a red paper flower as he held it out to her. "This is a little present. I thought you might not have seen one, Ms. Xiong."

"Hey. Do you still remember?" Another flashback came when they were just young kids.

"Remember what?" He spoke with a cruel smile knowing what she meant. She glared at him and then her glare went to the paper flower. He pissed her off to where it drove her insane.

Days passed and it was suddenly Friday which was supposed to be a good thing, but Sabine had to go to Paris for a dinner and discussion with Gabriel Agreste about the photoshoot. Rather in fact for a woman who was feature in many things she was nervous for the discussion. So, she went to Felicity Leong's place for advice.

"Why are you so nervous?" Felicity asked while taking a sip of her tea. "You have faced many things like press conferences and stage stuff."

"I know, but my whole life everyone knows that the Chengs and Agrestes are in competition and will never call peace. We fight for fashion and fragrances. The thing is that having the photoshoot between my daughter and her boyfriend on the front cover of every France Vogue and Hong Kong Vogue will help us, but will ruin us."

"I get it, but how about you step back and take a bigger look at the picture?"

"Even if I did, it still wouldn't help. I had to force all the crappy news and magazines to take down the thing about my daughter dating the Adrien Agreste. Do you know what it puts on us?"

"Yeah, it shows that it's possible that a Cheng and Agreste can fall in love."

"I know, but it's also an invasion of privacy for her and I hate it because she's still not adjusting to the whole new rich life."

"Do you like Adrien though? As a her boyfriend?"

Sabine stopped and sighed. "Yes, I like him as my daughter's boyfriend. I still remember when Adrien told me about what she said when the case was won for you and it was bad."

"Oh yeah, you told me about that."

"It hurts at the same time. Though, I don't know what to do. Should I just allow it?"

"It depends on you. Wait, are you scared of Gabriel Agreste?"

"NO WAY." She snapped.

"YOU ARE."

"FINE, MAYBE A LITTLE."

"Girl, time for pep talk. Right now Gabriel thinks you're some undeserving, no good, trashy, unrefined banana. White on the inside yellow on the outside."

"You don't gotta point that out."

"In the inside you are some amazing money making freaking game changer! Yah know? So on the outside."

"Yeah, he'a trying to play a game of chicken with me. He thinks I'm going to swerve like a chicken."

"But you can't swerve."

"No, I'm not going to swerve just for him."

"No, like chickens are bakas. Yah know what? You gonna roll up to that dinner and be like bak bak, baka."

"Bak bak, baka."

"Yeah, there you go! So keep in mind he's posh and snobby which makes them snoshy so you gotta be like the God."

"Yeah. Thanks Felicity. Now that you think about it more I'm glad that my brother told me that the Chengs had a long term relationship with the Xiong family dynasty. Good thing we had business with them, so they could help us along with the money stuff."

"Yep, Daiyu Xiong is very interesting. After when Eric Teng split with her, but I don't know who ended it. Though now she seems more depressed."

"Ah, yes. That man is very manipulative man. Yet he made millions off it."

"That's one of his specialties. Chaoxiang told me that he loves to torment Daiyu in mind games."

"How sickening. How can he stay friends with him and how can Daiyu keep a business share with him still?"

"Dunno."

"Now that you brought up Chaoxiang...I really have to talk to him. It has been five months and we haven't spoken."

"Aiyah Sabine."