Sensing that Jack Dawson was not lying, Grace Sullivan took a deep breath, her eyes showing a hint of pity as she looked at Jack Dawson. It was only after more than ten seconds that she slowly said, “The chairman of Di Pharmaceutical is Victor Dawson, and it’s also one of the world’s top 500 companies, ranking among the top ten in the global pharmaceutical industry. Victor Dawson has two sons, one biological and one adopted…”

“Is it me and Henry Dawson?” Jack Dawson felt a stir in his heart when he heard this and immediately asked.

Grace Sullivan nodded. “It seems you haven’t lost all those memories. Yes, it’s you and Henry Dawson. And you were always regarded by Victor Dawson as his biological son, while Henry Dawson was the adopted one. This is something almost everyone knows, and no one ever doubted it.”

Hearing Grace Sullivan’s words, Mark Dawson vaguely understood something.

“However, things are unpredictable. Not long after I married you, the DNA test results for you and Henry Dawson showed that Henry Dawson is actually the biological son of Victor Dawson of Di Pharmaceutical. At first, we thought there was a mistake, but after several tests at renowned and authoritative institutions, the results were all the same. You are the adopted one, and Henry Dawson is the biological son of Victor Dawson.” Grace Sullivan sighed as she spoke.

Jack Dawson didn’t take this matter to heart. For him, not being the biological son of Victor Dawson actually made him feel more at ease.

Is being part of a Fortune Global 500 company that impressive? Back in Jiguo, the Di family was second only to one and above all others. Even so, weren’t they wiped out just like that? For the current Jack Dawson, his fate had to be in his own hands, not dependent on family inheritance.

He wondered if the reason Grace Sullivan married him was because he had Di Pharmaceutical behind him.

Sure enough, before Jack Dawson could ask, Grace Sullivan looked at Jack Dawson apologetically and said, “The reason I married you was entirely because my Shen family needed help from Di Pharmaceutical. It wasn’t just financial support, but help in other areas as well.”

At this point, Grace Sullivan’s lips curled into a bitter smile. “I guess no one in my Shen family expected that not long after I married you, the issue of you not being the heir to the Di family would come up. It seems that when you were sent to Luobei University, your family was already planning this, while my family thought they had the upper hand…”

Here, Grace Sullivan paused slightly. Planning? If Mark Dawson wasn’t Victor Dawson’s son, a simple DNA test would suffice—what was there to plan? And Mark Dawson wouldn’t need to be sent to Luojin, would he?

Jack Dawson chuckled. “Did your Shen family want you to divorce me and then marry Henry Dawson?”

Grace Sullivan’s face turned a bit pale. She was silent for a long while before nodding again. “Yes. Although I never liked you, nor did we ever truly become husband and wife. After marrying you, I never thought about marrying a second person.”

Jack Dawson said calmly, “Did I sense that you were having a hard time because I wouldn’t let you divorce, so I simply took the initiative to propose it?”

Grace Sullivan nodded again, saying nothing more. She knew very well that Mark Dawson liked her very much, even loved her to the core. The divorce was proposed by him, and in her view, it was probably because he didn’t want to make things difficult for her. But whether it was arranged by the family or not, deep down she truly felt nothing for Mark Dawson, and she knew she could never fall in love with him.

So, in response to Mark Dawson’s self-mocking words, she could only remain silent.

After a minute or two of silence, Grace Sullivan finally looked up at Jack Dawson and said, “I asked you to leave Luojin because if you didn’t, I was worried that Henry Dawson’s mother would find you, or even do you harm.”

Jack Dawson smiled. “But that’s your future mother-in-law.”

He really did admire Grace Sullivan’s judgment. In fact, before he came here, someone had already come looking for him.

Grace Sullivan sighed again, not arguing with Jack Dawson, but said, “Originally, after I entered the Martial Arts Academy at Luoda, as long as you could get in too, everything else would be easy to handle… I just didn’t expect my old illness to relapse, so I probably won’t be able to enter the Martial Arts Academy for now.”

Jack Dawson understood now. The reason Grace Sullivan gave him the qualification to apply to the Martial Arts Academy at Luoda was to provide him with a measure of safety.

Thinking of this, he sighed inwardly as well. No matter what, Grace Sullivan didn’t have much say in this matter. Maybe Grace Sullivan could threaten with her life, but clearly, she wasn’t at the point of doing that for him.

For Grace Sullivan to do this much was already quite remarkable.

“Tell me about your illness. What’s going on?” Jack Dawson didn’t want to continue this topic.

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Chapter 14: Drawing a Period

When Jack Dawson asked about her illness, Grace Sullivan immediately realized that Jack Dawson must have forgotten this part as well. In fact, Jack Dawson did know about her illness and had even said he would find the red xue flower for her.

“My illness is cardiac asphyxia…” Grace Sullivan explained, “It means my heart could stop functioning at any moment. Sometimes it’s for a very short time, sometimes for a long time. If it lasts too long, even emergency treatment won’t help…”

At this point, Jack Dawson fully understood. Grace Sullivan’s illness was called the ‘life-leak syndrome’ on the Yalen Continent.