段艾月（林心如 饰）是含着金汤匙出生的千金大小姐，而杨阿细（刘涛 饰）的母亲杨玉姣不过是平凡的穷苦农妇，一场瘟疫让这两个性格和身份都截然不同的女孩相遇了，她们的命运就此纠葛在一起。                                                                    　　时值瘟疫横行之际，段艾月和杨阿细都染上了病，在只能救一人的情况下，段艾月的父亲段沐海（樊志起 饰）选择了救自己的女儿而放弃了杨阿细，在杨阿细奄奄一息之时，幸运的遇见了名为刘伯恩（王斑 饰）的男孩，刘伯恩将杨阿细带到一处古刹内，杨阿细方才保住了性命。可就在杨阿细对刘伯恩渐渐生出纯真感情之时，却得知后者即将出国深造。一晃眼十年过去，已经长大成人的杨阿细回到了伤心地大理，此时她的心中充满了对段沐海的仇恨，发誓一定要替母亲和自己报仇。

Based on the internationally acclaimed Tudor murder mystery novels by C.J. Sansom, the four-part drama is set in 16th century England during the dissolution of the monasteries.　　The series will follow the story of Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer with an acute sense of justice and one of the few honest men in a world beset with scheming and plots. Shardlake works for Thomas Cromwell, the dangerous and all-powerful right-hand man to Henry VIII.　　Despite Shardlake’s unwavering loyalty to Cromwell and the Crown, his position in society is unfavored due to his appearance, as a person living with scoliosis during the Tudor period, suffering the indignity of being abused as a “crookback” wherever he turns. As he investigates the murder of one of Cromwell’s commissioners at a monastery in the remote town of Scarnsea, he is accompanied by Jack Barak, a cocky and good-looking character who may be Cromwell’s spy.

Nothing is more frightening, as the narrator points out, than a ‘time-rich nosy person’. Exhibit A is Ahn Geo-ul (Gyeong Su-jin), who commits herself to social justice causes with terrifying tenacity. After temporarily renting a unit in the Baek-sae Apartment building, she discovers that a loud, hard to locate banging noise occurs from 4am every night, making the residents’ lives an insomniac hell – and so she determines to engage in her own disruption and to find the culprit of this acoustic assault, simultaneously eliminating her eccentric neighbours as suspects, and recruiting them to her cause.　　Focusing on a woman who is an unstoppable force for good, it is also a plea for community cohesion and solidarity.