The bloody, brutal "beast fights" continued.
If the Beast-Fighting Arena north of the Royal Court was the favorite diversion of the Qiang Lord Wangs and nobles, where they could witness Han fathers and sons slaughtering one another,
then the Han Women’s Hall south of the Royal Court was the place that haunted the dreams of the Qiang Lord Wangs and nobles!
The Han Women’s Hall held a large number of women abducted from the borders of the Han State. Stripped of their freedom, they were imprisoned like slaves for the Qiang's pleasure.
At that moment, inside the Han Women’s Hall.
The Zhongqiang Tribe's eldest prince and a group of sons of various Qiang tribal chiefs were drinking and making merry.
With one arm around a fresh, lovely Han woman and a wine cup in the other hand, they drank deeply and occasionally burst into delighted laughter.
The Han women in their arms, however, wore blank expressions, their eyes vacant.
They were like walking corpses.
From the moment the Qiang captured them, their miserable fate had been sealed for life!
The Qiang had tried every means imaginable to control them, make them obey, and keep them from taking their own lives.
If they disobeyed and had fathers or brothers among the captives, those fathers and brothers would be sent to the Beast-Fighting Arena; if they had captive husbands or sons, those husbands and sons would be sent instead.
If they killed themselves, all their captive relatives would be murdered by cruel means; if they had no relatives, their fellow prisoners would be killed.
Thus, the women in the Han Women's Hall truly could neither live nor die as they wished, spending every day in a living hell.
Over time, they gradually grew numb.
Truly, they could not even seek death.