After they finished speaking, all eyes rested on Su Xiaowan. Right now, Su Xiaowan had also stopped her crying. She said, "Just make your decision, we can't leave now. We'll wait a bit more until it's nearly dawn. That's when people tend to sleep the soundest. Our chances of success will be greater then..."
After firming up their plan, they huddled together for warmth, clinging to each other to endure the endless, lonely, and terrifying night...
roughly around two or three o'clock in the morning, during the deepest phase of sleep, Su Xiaowan silently used the tools she had hidden on her to unlock the iron latch in no time.
This was a technique Han Dongchen had taught her. She had begged him for mercy countless times because of it. But who could have thought that this simple skill, born out of her own curiosity, would actually come in handy.
