Ryuzaki, an editor of Muscle Magazine, which features photographs of men with sculpted bodies, becomes involved with a man named Kitami; their affair soon becomes dominated by sadomasochistic games, with a horrid result. Jump ahead one year, Ryuzaki is released from jail and goes in search of Kitami, perhaps to make amends.

While the Japanese army was plotting to make Manchuria an independent nation for strategic reasons, Kawashima Yoshiko, a beautiful woman disguised as a man, escorted Wanrong Fei, the wife of Emperor Puyi, who was dressed in a cheongsam, out of Tianjin and, while avoiding attacks from pursuers, led her to the hotel where Puyi was staying.