A pond of water lilies seemed to remind her of her past life, of the person who was willing to die for her.
It's just that the man was reunited with his family after her death, with a wife and children.
Only after she died, she was still thinking about him. How on earth should she keep her memory and find him.
Concept: In that era, it was easy for two people with huge status differences to fall in love but not stay together.