Gusu Sword

A strange thunderbolt from the blue blew a family of three on a summer self-driving trip from Xushuguan, Suzhou in 2026, into the troubled times of the Spring and Autumn Period 2,500 years ago. In 512 BC, King Wu Helu was in his third year. Gusu City became the birthplace of peerless swords and the engine for rejuvenating the country and striving for hegemony. Li Yu, a university professor of economics; Xu Ying, a middle school art teacher; and their son, Li Qingchun, a troubled young man who had just graduated from university and failed in six attempts at finding a job. At that time, he was an ordinary person and lived a dull life. When the three woke up, they had nothing to live on and only vaguely remembered the past. They were regarded as "stateless refugees" by Wu State and had to survive first and then find their way home. Li Yu was captured by officers and soldiers and taken to the sword forging workshop outside Dongye Gate. He started from the lowest level as a drummer apprentice and used modern economics knowledge to improve the blasting, ingredients and processes. He partnered with Mo Xie and his wife, but this aroused the fear of Song Song, the workshop worker. This man was Bo Pu's brother-in-law, colluding with Vietnamese spies and betraying military industry secrets. Xu Ying was impressed by her "charcoal light and shadow embroidery" on silk at Changmen Market in the west of the city. She was taken into the palace weaving room by Shang Qing Zhuanyi, but she was involved in the secret war between Bo Pi and Wu Zixu. Li Qingchun worked hard in the market, from being a corn farmer to a guest house owner, secretly weaving the first civilian intelligence network in Wu. The three of them stood on their knees and looked at each other, a city full of fireworks. A sword, a piece of silk, and a person. In troubled times, they used knowledge and love to change their fate, forge their own Gusu, and were forged into swords by Gusu.