本剧改编自豆瓣阅读连载小说《轧戏》，作者祖乐。作为一名合格的成年人，胡羞（卢昱晓 饰）原本平静的生活随着未婚夫的消失而崩塌。直至一天，她被朋友带去一家剧本杀俱乐部散心，一辆午夜列车就这样把胡羞带到了一个漫雪纷飞、谍影交错的年代。胡羞化身剧本杀中的角色，迎来了自己故事的序幕，也遇到了命运般的人物——秦宵一。这个王牌NPC的真名叫肖稚宇（陈星旭 饰），与剧本杀中的角色不同，肖稚宇本人的故事似乎更加神秘。戏里戏外的身份千变万化，他们之间也展开了一场别出心裁的甜蜜之恋。
Lewis returns to Oxford after several years absence and is reluctantly assigned by his new boss, DCS Innocent, to the murder of an Oxford mathematics student who was shot while participating in a sleep study. The key-code used to access the sleep lab was assigned to a fellow maths student, Daniel Griffin, but Daniel's math tutor has provided him with an alibi. Daniel is a maladjusted young man who will soon inherit his father's automotive empire. He is disruptive and has no respect for his uncle who now heads the company. The future of the company however rests on an impending deal with Japanese investors who insist that family unity is all important at this time. When two other murder occurs, Lewis must decipher a cryptic clue left in an old case file by his former boss, Chief Inspector Morse.
