@TheFiller yeah, probably her, if i'm not mistaken, she order her servant to observe Xiao Yan and helping him from the shadow if something "beyond his control" happen
@Kaarme then you still don't know about Wuxia ~ on Wuxia people fighting non stop for entire year as if nothing...
moreover on this scene when Xiao Yan didn't gone too long, probably just a hour or less....
on this manga adaptation, the fighting scenes got ended quite fast since it takes lot of pages if the author draw the full fight...