Chinese Torture Chamber Story

A man is discovered dead, having been given an aphrodisiac so strong it caused his penis to explode. His wife Little Cabbage and the scholar Yang Ni-mu are dragged before a judge, both protesting their innocence, and charged with adultery and conspiring to kill the husband. But unknown to them the real killers are the judge's own son and the scholar's wife who added the aphrodisiac to a medicinal prescription. In the court Little Cabbage and Yang Ni-mu tell the story of how they became lovers, he taking her on as a maid because her father could not afford to pay rent and the two then becoming attracted, something that inspired a whole host jealousies. The judge now conspires to frame and torture the two innocents into confession