Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in an Irish Republican Army car bombing. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.

十二年前七万赤焰军被奸人所害导致全军覆没，冤死梅岭，只剩少帅林殊（张哲瀚 饰）侥幸生还。十二年后林殊改头换面化身“麒麟才子”梅长苏（胡歌 饰），建立江左盟，以“琅琊榜”第一才子的身份重返帝都。梅长苏背负血海深仇，暗中帮助昔日挚友靖王（王凯 饰）周旋于太子（高鑫 饰）与誉王（黄维德 饰）的斗争之中，同时又遇到了昔日未婚妻——云南王郡主穆霓凰（刘涛 饰）却不能相见。梅长苏以病弱之躯为昭雪冤案、为振兴河山，踏上了一条黑暗又惊心动魄的夺嫡之路。