Escape 2.0 for the Artist’s Life
From the cracks of light that shone through the wooden planks, Yujia could see night slowly fall. The light of the sun was replaced by the light of men carrying torches.
And then, the time came.
Yufeng had sawed through the ropes on her wrist. Because of the way the bandits tied her, she had perfect access to grabbing the knife she had hidden earlier in her robes. It only took some time to unbind her hands, and even less time to chop off the ropes around the pole. Once she was free, she helped to cut away the ropes around Yujia's wrists as well.
The success of escaping these binds was likely due to Yujia's advice of hiding the knife. Yujia could only imagine how much more difficult it would be if the bandits didn't underestimate them from the start, like they were doing right now.
Once they were free, and once it was night, it was time to escape.