被冠以弑父罪名流放荒原的公主凤漓，七年后以妖君之名重归墨城。她在姨母孟妩操控的雀楼盛宴中，选中了身份成谜的东篱遗孤云湛。一场表面荒淫的选奴戏码，实则是凤漓对各方势力的血腥清洗。云湛以雀奴身份步步逼近，既是刺杀目标，亦是故人重逢，两人竟是幼时在荒原相依为命的患难之交。凤漓借疯批人设暗中追查弑父真相，云湛假意臣服伺机报仇复国，却在虚情假意的耳鬓厮磨间深陷情网。当凤漓发现云湛腰间烙印认出故人，当云湛目睹她呕血仍含笑饮毒，伪装尽碎。姨母孟妩的傀儡阴谋，西岐少主的和亲棋局，东篱旧部的复仇烈焰，皆在女君大婚之日引爆。终凤漓手持虎符踏碎阴谋，云湛为她背离复国大业，两个从地狱爬出的灵魂，在血色王座上相拥。
半年间，SNK剧变，总监余英飞离职、门外汉古肇华空降。张家妍虽掌权却难服众。刘艳的公开平台崛起，动摇传统媒体地位，连已入官场的许诗晴亦被卷入新旧媒体的角力。文慧心于此时复出，昭告世人：新闻女王的地位永远不可撼动！
珠宝品牌创始人顾流苏，工作雷厉风行，生活中也处处严谨认真，却在一次意外中与仅有一面之缘的“少爷”陆星辰一夜春宵，闹了个大乌龙！更糟糕的是，陆星辰紧随其后入职公司成为顾流苏的贴身秘书，这对欢喜冤家万万没有想到，曾经的“死对头”竟在时间的发酵中发生质的变化。陆星辰对嘴硬心软的顾流苏产生不可言说的爱慕心意，而他的设计才华，也被眼光挑剔的顾流苏认可，灵魂契合让他们在清醒中愈渐沉醉，沦陷在平淡又暗涌的朝夕之间。
Season 5 finds Murder, She Wrote's intrepid Jessica Fletcher in fine sleuthing form, and venturing farther afield from Cabot Cove--a good thing, since at the rate the murders have been happening, that town would be nearly cleaned out. Some of the best episodes take place in more exotic locales like New York (dead man on the street, wearing just one shoe), Montana (a publishing convention gone horribly wrong) and West Virginia (two whistle-blowers at a coal company found gruesomely murdered). Angela Lansbury sparkles with determination and bonhomie, hitting her stride and then some. Jessica's own life backstory is even filled out tantalizingly, especially in the episode "The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel," in which an investigation is launched into a mysterious cargo plane that is linked, she learns to her horror, to her late husband. The series' other delight is watching for cameos by stars of a certain age, and this season doesn't disappoint, with appearances by Roddy McDowall, Shelley Fabares, and Dinah Shore--but also some up-and-comers like Megan Mullally (proof positive that the Will & Grace whine was a put-on) and future satirist Bill Maher.
