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！
As Leo's replacement Thomas Chamberlain arrives Nikki investigates the murders of Rachel Freedman, shot in the head, and her little autistic son Nathan, who was poisoned. Nikki rejects policewoman Anne Burchett's theory that Rachel killed them both but is perturbed when an impostor, claiming to be Rachel's sister, visits the morgue. At the same time the disfigured corpse of Eva Liron is discovered, killed with the same poison as Nathan. She had been the nanny to French hot shot footballer Isaac Dreyfus and was planning to blackmail him over a sex tape of them both. Jewish Isaac is a controversial figure due to his anti-Muslim sentiments but he denies ant part in the murders. Then another victim, Isaac's agent Mousa, is discovered dead.
讲述了三个命运交织的人物： Naksit——遭构陷贪污的政客，被迫遁入丛林部落避世； Phawanee——刚从法国名校毕业的教师，秉持正义揭发担任镇长的叔父与私立学校的黑幕； Siwa——人前圣商、人后行贿的伪善企业家。 当Phawanee目睹愈演愈烈的腐败现象，这位倔强的女教师毅然踏上对抗社会不公的险途。屡战屡败却愈挫愈勇的她，最终说服隐匿山林的Naksit重出江湖，两人携手向盘根错节的利益集团宣战……
A rootless genius, Iris Nixon, steals an enigmatic code from a charming philanthropist and disappears. A tense countdown ensues as she races to unravel the code's mystery.
辛亥革命胜利之后的民国初年，江南才女沈碧云为了实现进入中国最大的私人藏书楼博览群书、为所有学子争取读书的权利的理想，也为了探查杀父仇人，不惜以终生幸福为赌注，嫁入藏书楼之主的宣家，却由此陷入宣家内部的勾心斗角、争权夺利漩涡，遭遇重重危机，尝尽人情冷暖，几度出生入死，宣家也经历了一次次浩劫，直至家破人亡，碧云仍然矢志不渝，在宣家四少爷宣孝季和进步青年吴时的帮助下，凭着坚强的信念和过人的智慧拯救了宣家，成为宣家新当家人，并查清真凶，报得父仇。最终，沈碧云冲破封建祖制开放书楼，包括碧云在内的莘莘学子得以登楼读书。
在京都艺妓神渡琴音喝醉酒睡着之时，同伴艺妓惨遭杀害，成了替罪羊的琴音因杀人罪而被迫入狱。在那里等待着她的是一群极难相处的女囚。琴音遭到她们的欺凌，有时甚至威胁到生命。但天生腹黑且不好惹的琴音总能突破重重困难。而且琴音其实是被冤枉的……她为何会背负上莫须有的罪名而被迫入狱————谜团也渐渐浮出了水面。 （奶茶@追新番原创翻译）
