54 EXT . YUN ESTATE LILY POND DAY We see that Yun Xing Tong, Shui Liu Can and the handmaiden are now walking towards a pavilion overlooking a landscaped garden pond, filled with water lilies . YUN XING TONG So our days of youth passed … HANDMAIDEN Wow, the way that Master told me, I’d never have known it was so exciting . I just wish I could have a father the way the two of you had . YUN XING TONG Really, are you that poor a storyteller, Shui? I should have guessed, you never even told me that this handmaiden of yours was an orphan! SHUI LIU CAN Maybe I am … YUN XING TONG Well that is not the way that I remember you to be . HANDMAIDEN Well, how was my Master? YUN XING TONG He was quite the charmer . There was a girl whom the two of us both knew once, and she had the most beautiful name … it meant Daughter Among the Flowers . (Beat) Alas I never married her, she left me before I could . Your Master, could he charm her … It is at this point that we see a servant bring a Go board into the pavilion, and the two men start laying out the respective black and white pieces on the board . FLASHBACK BEGINS DISSOLVE TO: INT . YUN ESTATE STUDY DAY We see the two young men, now comfortably into adolescence with their zithers ready, awaiting the elderly music teacher . The elderly music teacher enters at this moment, carrying his zither, and behind him is his daughter . The same girl that we saw picking him up with the umbrella, but now we see she is a teenager much like the two young men are . SLO - MO as she enters she turns her head and smiles .