The two of them didn't have to wait long. After a few minutes, the outside erupted in a cacophony—chaotic footsteps, irritable rebukes, and desperate cries for mercy...
Qin Sisi's heart involuntarily tensed. Were those young girls about to be sacrificed?
The door to the white jade room was pushed open. Elderly Fourth entered first, followed by several guards who shoved five weeping girls into the room.
Qin Sisi stared at them unblinkingly. She had already foreseen their deaths, but what unfolded next was far more horrifying and grotesque than she had ever imagined.
The first girl was dragged by a guard to the innermost white jade bathtub. With a sudden, chilling "sching," the guard unsheathed the saber hanging at his waist and, in one swift motion, severed the girl's head.
The remaining girls let out even more terrified screams, desperately struggling, but they couldn't break free from the guards' overwhelmingly strong grip.