故事发生在上世纪三十年代的上海，周瑾（韩雪 饰）的父亲死于非命，意外得知自己神秘身世的周瑾发誓要查清父亲死亡的真相。周瑾同好友苏志文（马天宇 饰）一起，隐瞒了真实的身份，潜入了上海最声名显赫的沈家。 沈家有四朵金花：外表优雅内心狠毒的大小姐方柔枝（王琳 饰）、热爱文艺有些神经质的二小姐方琪（徐百卉 饰）、出国留学命途多舛的三小姐曾凌戈（毛晓彤 饰）和相信金钱至上的四小姐曾雨衫（雷洋 饰）。随着时间的推移，周瑾渐渐发现，这个表面上光鲜亮丽的大家族，实际上早已经败絮其中，而众人极力想要隐藏的秘密，正是周瑾千方百计想要得到的真相。
At the beginning of 2259, Captain John Sheridan replaces Sinclair as the military governor of the station. He and the command staff learn that the death of President Santiago was actually an assassination masterminded by Vice President Clark (who assumed the Presidency upon Santiago's death). A conflict develops between the Babylon 5 command staff and the Psi Corps, an increasingly autocratic organization which oversees and controls the lives of human telepaths. Commander Ivanova, the second-in-command of the station, is secretly a latent telepath who has illicitly avoided registering with the Psi Corps. The Shadows, an ancient and extremely powerful race who have recently emerged from hibernation, are revealed to be the cause of a variety of mysterious and disturbing events, including the attack on the Narn outpost at the end of 2258. Centauri Ambassador Londo Mollari unknowingly enlists their aid through his association with the mysterious Mr. Morden in the ongoing conflict with the Narn. The elderly and ailing Centauri emperor, long an advocate of reconciliation with the Narn, dies suddenly while visiting Babylon 5. A number of conspirators, including Londo Mollari and Refa, take control of the Centauri government by assassinating their opponents and placing the late emperor's unstable nephew on the throne. Their first act is to start open aggression against the Narn. After a full-scale war breaks out, the Centauri eventually conquer Narn in a brutal attack involving mass drivers, outlawed weapons of mass destruction. Towards the end of the year, the Clark administration begins to show increasingly totalitarian characteristics, clamping down on dissent and restricting freedom of speech. The Vorlons are revealed to be the basis of legends about angels on various worlds, including Earth, and are the ancient enemies of the Shadows. They enlist the aid of Sheridan and the Babylon 5 command staff in the struggle against the Shadows.
