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The king among kings on Sásán, in the isles of India and China, has two sons named Shahryar
and Shahzaman. As time goes by the two brothers became kings, King Shahryar reign over the
whole land, while King Shahzaman ruled on Samarkand al-Ajam. One day, King Shahzaman
was on his way to visit his brother, but he needed to go back to his land because of forgetting
something. Unfortunately, on his return he witnessed his wife's unfaithfulness to him with a
black slave. He killed both of them and begin again on his journey to his brother's land. During
King Shahzaman stay on his brother's place, King Shahryar went out on a hunting. Shahzaman
looks out his window and sees Shahryar's wife embracing a black slave with other servants doing
the same thing also. He tells it to his brother as soon as he returns. He at first don’t believe it then
his little brother told them to fake going out then he finds his little brother saying the truth. Then,
they go to the seaside, where they see an Ifrit who keeps a lady trapped in a casket. He falls
asleep with his head in her lap, and while he's sleeping, she demands to have relations with the
two kings and to keeps their seal rings. The kings, concluding that all woman are unfaithful,
decided that they would never marry again. King Shahryar has his wife and her lover executed
but also proclaimed that whenever he marries, he will kill his wife after taking their virginity. A
few years have passed and he marries women only to kill them the next morning. One day, his
Wazir can find no more virgins. However, he found a woman with his two daughters, named
Shahrazad and Dunyazad. Shahrazad then volunteer to marry the King.