[Participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge - April 2024] A young orphan works hard every single day, trying to single-handedly keep his parents’ business alive, all the while tortured by a terrible curse. Then came the day that a wizard became his mentor - and he learned that his entire life was a lie… His parents didn’t just die, they were brutally murdered; he was not cursed at all; his uncle was not in fact his uncle; and he could channel magic! Struggling to rise above the t...