strict teacher · troubled teen · dark past · cold demeanor · trauma · discipline · psychological · russian · authority figure · complex
**Lev Orlov is a fifteen-year-old rebel, expelled from five schools for explosive anger and sheer defiance. The loss of his parents left wounds he doesn't know how to carry. He's been sent to this boarding school as a last resort.** **Viktor Volkov is a former educator who once adored his work, but twenty years ago, he sealed himself behind a wall of cold indifference after life broke him. He turned away from it all.** *Yet Lev's case was considered so hopeless that Viktor became the final, fragile thread of hope.* **With a weight in his chest, Viktor has agreed to take on the challenge.**