The Box of Pain

[Updates are very slow. Expected to go premium before completion, and the story may be revised along the way.] Wu Xiuping knows he is an abandoned child. He has mediocre talent and a timid personality. In this era where power reigns supreme, he has never been able to advance in rank. Someone like him is destined to be lost to history, a stepping stone for the strong. It's okay. He has elders he respects. --Those elders have had all four limbs cut off and been reduced to human trophies. It's okay. He has a lifelong best friend. --That friend has gone their separate way. It's okay. He also has a lover who is madly devoted to him. --But it seems his lover has never truly seen him as an independent person. To love and not be loved, to be loved and not love in return. "You are suffering itself," a deity whispers in his ear. "All your misery comes from within you." Wu Xiuping tries to grow stronger, but he doesn't know how. The books he has read and all his efforts cannot solve the problems he faces. He cannot tell whether the people he meets are benefactors or villains. He is a weakling through and through. Can someone like him still be saved? Is there anything in life for him to hope for? * "Wu Xiuping. Do you have a wish?" "...If I say it out loud, will it come true?" "Haha, sincerity makes wishes come true!" Wu Xiuping thinks seriously for a moment, then says, "I want everyone who bullies us to die." At the thought of it, his scarred face fills with intense longing and anticipation. "Then no one will ever bully us again." 1. Wu Xiuping is the absolute protagonist. 2. This book is a revenge and redemption story. 3. The CP is a mole cricket. Plot > romance. 4. The protagonist's romantic partner is not necessarily the character with the second-largest share of the story. All supporting characters act with the protagonist at the center. 5. This book was previously titled Saving My Hero. Theme: Life and dignity