This was nighttime, many women were directly dragged from their beds, clothes in disarray.
A maid screamed too loudly and was decapitated with one strike, leaving the others too scared to utter a sound, holding back their sobs.
Xie Wanqing saw the two maids disguised as Pei Yuxuan and Pei Lin dragged out as well, under the blazing firelight, their faces were full of panic, delicate features drenched in tears, with swords placed against their necks.
The bandits knew these two were noblewomen from the Capital City. Instead of being rough like with the maids, they taunted them to undress themselves.
The two young women trembled uncontrollably, yet clutched their chests unwilling to undress. The bandits grew impatient, a palm as large as a fan struck them down forcefully, and the sound of tearing clothes echoed in the night sky.
Their trembling, exposed chests were caught in the moonlight, and the surrounding bandits laughed.
