When Adrien Agreste faces a difficult breakup, he is left vulnerable and alone. Feeling nothing but pain and rejection, he unconsciously builds up an emotional wall so strong, that no one can break it. Everything changes when a new student, Marinette Dupain Cheng enters his broken life. *** This is an Adrienette AU with no superheroes or kwamies. *I don't own Miraculous Ladybug or the characters, and the art used in the cover and some chapters is not mine.

Adrien was twenty years old when he first became Chat Noir and met Ladybug. Four years later, amidst the toughest time of his college career, he meets Marinette Dupain-Cheng. A College/Reverse Crush AU exploring what would happen if Marinette was four years younger than Adrien, how that would change the nature of their superhero partnership, and how one chance meeting can spark an affair that causes a long-dormant battle of duty vs desire to reignite. An Illustrated fanfic collaboration between myself (writer) and Edendaphne (art). https://www.wattpad.com/user/edendaphne

Marinette is thrilled. She's spending her afternoon at the museum with Adrien, and even Manon's unexpectedly tagging along with them can't tarnish her happiness. After all, what can go wrong for two seventeen-year-olds watching over a seven-year-old? Turns out, a lot of things. ------ This is an illustrated fanfiction collaboration by Maerynn and EdenDaphne ------ This work is intended for readers ages 13 and up