C298 The Master of the Manor Shen Qingshan

In the capital of the Grand Xia Dynasty, a group of palace maids, their faces ashen, were compelled to disrobe and don only sheer garments as they danced in the grand hall. Civil and military officials lined the sides of the hall, prostrated and shivering on the ground, their eyes wide with terror as they beheld their king lying in a pool of blood