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Years ago when gods and goddesses still roamed the Earth, the Goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite, fell in love with a mortal. Since then, they’ve been living their lives with their beautiful daughter named Arzaylea. Arzaylea was a loving daughter who cared about her parents very much. Everyday, she would go to the market to buy fresh food to cook for her family. In many eyes, they believed Arzaylea was the prettiest women alive and indeed she was. Her magnificent beauty would stand out in a crowd as she walk by. Arzaylea distracted many men making the other women and wives in the village envy her. On one normal morning, as Arzaylea followed her daily routine of going to the market and going back home to cook for her family, she passed by a married couple who had just moved into the village a couple days ago. As she strolled by, her charming looks caught the husband’s attention causing his wife to hate and envy Arzaylea. Day after day, the husband would come out in the morning to watch Arzaylea pass by on her way back home. However, this annoyed the wife. She gathered a group of other envious women and plotted a plan against Arzaylea to destroy her beauty. …show more content…

During one evening, while Arzaylea walked down the same path as usual, the women began to follow her. Sensing something was wrong, Arzaylea tried to take a shortcut home. The wife, however, knew this path and went the other way to block Arzaylea and to create a dead end. She quickly stopped herself from running when the wife blocked her passage. Scared and confused, she tried to run the other way but was cut off by the other jealous women. Knowing that something bad was about to happen, she begged them to spare her life, but they showed no mercy. They surrounded her and the wife threw boiling water at Arzaylea. Feeling the burn, Arzaylea screeched and immediately screamed out in

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