If you don’t know what story cubes are, see the introduction to the story cubes series.
To see the original roll of the story cubes, see yesterday’s post.
A happy but anxious girl, still trying to figure out which direction to go with her life, meets a rich stranger. At first, he seems like something spawned from Hell itself, but over time, a spark happens as she realizes that underneath that monstrous façade is a real human being. They go on to wash their prejudices from each other in the fountains of paradise.
Happily ever after, etc.
If anyone wrote a novel with this story, I bet it would sell a million copies. Oh, wait, someone did: Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice. I love modern re-tellings of classic stories if they understand and respect the source material, and this one does that.
In this case, this is a meta-retelling of Pride and Prejudice, as the book is actually a novelization of a web series that was popular (by literary standards) in 2012. That might seem like a long time ago, but the book was almost 200 years old when they made the web series, and if you haven’t seen it, you can watch it here:
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