Friends or Couple
An 18th-century AU featuring original female lead Florina Williams and Severus Snape.
In 18th-century Britain, a woman's assets on the marriage market were her wealth, status, and looks. A man's assets were his wealth, status, moral character, and a cheerful, likable disposition.
The only way for Florina Williams, a squire's daughter, to avoid falling into the laboring class was to marry Severus Snape, a merchant with an annual income of three thousand pounds.
In those days, compromise was inevitable and necessary. After all, who ever married for love?
Theme: A couple weathering hardship clears away the fog and finds true love.
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It's very interesting. The author's writing style is like smoothly translated English literature. It depicts the difficulties of women in that era from different angles. The complex and helpless background of the era gives this book a profound theme. The concise and vivid description method demonstrates the author's writing skills. This is not like a romance novel, but more like a literary work.
Professors are always charming no matter what era they are in.
Wow wow wow, it was so well written, I cried while reading it.
He does look like a snake hiding in a cave hahaha
Thank you, madam, for writing such a high-quality Sri Lankan text
Wow great! (Hahaha, this comes from a reader who actually doesn't like Austen novels. When I was a child, I thought falling in love was boring hahaha)
After watching it, I don't know what else to say except wow. It's so exciting and very touching.
Haha, there is also this kind of AU, I like it so much
At first, I was worried that the calm and self-possessed heroine and the incomprehensible Snape would not adapt to this Austen-style British rural background. However, after reading it, I felt that it was just right, and the author's familiarity with the original work and British literature was evident. I would like to express my sincere opinion that the following two small comments are by no means seeking fault: 1. It would be nice if the heroine could be called by her first name instead of her surname. She will change her last name after marriage, and "Williams" is also very masculine, unless the author wants to use this as a metaphor for the failure of the early marriage after the union of the male and female protagonists and the female protagonist's gender struggle; 2. I almost missed a masterpiece because of the title of the work. The "difference between appearance and interior" is a bit "modern". I think it is more in line with American literature. Moreover, the male protagonist's inferiority complex and the female protagonist's hindsight are not a matter of appearance and interior, right?