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。

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.