In the last scene in the latter piece, the emperor Hankuang Wuti has just awakened from a drunken stupor. He goes to the imperial ancestral shrine to make offerings to loyal ministers of the past who he had killed while drunk. It looks like he is fighting against the shadowy demons in his heart, and leaps, crawls, and stumbles across the stage, and in the end dies of shock and horror.
「打金磚」最後一幕「上天台」，酒醒的漢光武帝到太廟祭奠因他醉酒而一時枉死的昔日功臣們，彷彿與心中幢幢鬼影交戰，在台上摔、仆、躓、跌，最後驚懼而死。