Syuu (also credited under the name 守雨) is a Japanese author of light novels, one of the wave of writers who built a readership on Japan's web fiction platforms before crossing into print and international translation.
A Young Lady Finds Her True Calling Living with the Enemy, illustrated by Fujigasaki and published in English by Cross Infinite World, is a complete two-volume enemies-to-lovers fantasy that opens with one of the genre's better hooks: "We demanded reparations, not a bride." Bertine, a marquess's daughter two weeks from her wedding, is instead shipped off to the victorious enemy nation as human reparations for a war her country barely fought, and handed to a general known as the Battle-Crazed Savage. Rather than wilting, she awakens to a formidable talent for business, building an empire of scarlet fabric, jams, spices, boats and eventually a hotel, earning the Federation more than the reparations ever demanded while respect slowly transforms into love, and while the kingdom that discarded her reaps the political whirlwind.
Readers praise its cosy, food-loving worldbuilding and quietly satisfying competence-fantasy heart. Syuu's other translated work includes Victoria of Many Faces, about an ex-spy seeking a peaceful life, with further series spanning rain-summoning princesses, dead-end cafés and a forest soup shop where a woman converses with animals.
