Three years later Liang Shanbo falls ill and dies. On the way to her wedding ceremony Zhu Yingtai visits Liang Shanbo's grave. While she is there a big storm comes. Just as she is praying at the grave with grief, the sky and the ground split open, and she jumps into the hole and dies.
三年後山伯因情病歿，英台出嫁過其墳，風濤大作，當英台哀慟祭墳時，天崩地裂，英台投墳而死。