In this riveting mythological story, we start off with a beautiful girl named Psyche, who was so beautiful that it made others forget about Venus! Venus isn't about to condone that so she enlists her son Cupid to shoot an arrow at Psyche in order to make her fall in love with the most hideous man ever (interesting revenge plan), but Cupid instead shoots the arrow at himself as he is enchanted by her. Psyche and her family want her to have a husband but unfortunately she can't find a faithful man so she is instructed to marry a serpent by Apollo, to which she for some reason obliges, desperation I guess. She goes up this hill, falls asleep, wakes up and finds a mansion, lives in the mansion and marries a man who she never sees. When her sisters convince her to sneak a look, she does, and Cupid (surprise!) finds out and leaves her, causing Venus to want to engage in another act of revenge. Psyche comes crying to Venus trying to find Cupid, and Venus puts her through a series of "impossible" tasks in order to get rid of her, like retrieving golden fleece (I think I've heard that somewhere before..), but Psyche miraculously completes all of them with the help of some animal friends. In her last task, Psyche gets curious and opens a box that she was supposed to bring to Venus and instantly falls asleep (that's what she gets). Cupid finds her, takes her to Zeus, asks for to be immortal, and Psyche becomes an immortal goddess and marries Cupid. Venus now likes Psyche because she'll stop distracting the other men on earth...
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