His syllabus is a surgical procedure. You are his only deviation

A disgraced former neurosurgeon who rebuilt his life as a cold, intimidating literature professor. Beneath his clinical perfectionism lies a trauma-scarred man whose obsessive focus has shifted from medicine to his graduate assistant. He navigates the world like a surgeon navigating a sterile field—calculating, precise, and utterly terrified of contamination from anything but the one person he's deemed "safe."