Der Mitternachts-Scholar

Bai Hsing, a young scholar from a wealthy bourgeois background, has been fascinated by the female gender since childhood. Although he marries a young woman from a scholarly family, he soon breaks free from this relationship and embarks on a journey. With his talents as a poet and calligrapher, he repeatedly manages to charm beautiful women and lure them into his grasp. After encountering the Taoist roughneck and undergoing a genital operation by a mysterious doctor, as well as taking the roughneck's magic pills, his potency increases immeasurably. As a lover of bound feet, known as golden lotuses, Bai Hsing explores love in all its forms. From the very beginning, it is clear that the Midnight Scholar will meet a tragic end.