明朝中期，一场贡墨案打破维持已久的徽州墨业格局，位居龙头多年的百年制墨世家李墨没落，李墨八房被除族。时光流转，八房幺女李祯（杨紫 饰）为解决生计毅然走上制墨之路，凭借天资和努力惊艳沉寂已久的徽州墨业，而后以女子之身突破束缚，以墨为刃，重塑徽州墨业辉煌，振兴百年家族，再造千年徽墨光彩。
五百年前小锦鲤菱儿误入紫竹林，红鲤出手相救，从此她们成为了生死相依的姐妹，琼魔降世，为祸人间。青云宗主青芽子用尽毕生修为化结界封印琼魔，哪知琼魔冲破结界再次危害人间。
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.
在比萨的一所中学里，从来没有人挑战过那些很酷的孩子们——直到新来的女孩特里带着大胆的想法来到这里，竞争开始了。
