故事从一场告白开始。袁湘琴（林依晨饰）是一个单纯开朗傻得可爱的女学生。在高中的开学典礼上她看到代表新生致词的江直树（郑元畅饰），便深深喜欢上了这个外表冷漠倔强IQ200的天才。在快毕业的时候，湘琴终于鼓起勇气，决定向这个暗恋了2年多的男生告白，却在大庭广众之下因为鲁莽而被拒绝。谁料祸不单行，湘琴家的房子又因二级地震震倒。湘琴与相依为命的父亲已一无所有，正当穷困潦倒之际，却偶遇了同是袁父国中好友的阿利叔叔和她的妻子，并被邀请到其家同住。而更令湘琴吃惊的是，自己居然要和江直树开始“同居”的生活。 湘琴艰辛的爱情之路由此展开。面对着这个自己从第一眼就认定并爱了五年的男生，湘琴能将他冷漠的心门打开吗？这样一个执着的女生，最后能追求到想要的爱情吗？
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.
