Jack Dawson was a master of medicine in Ji Country, so he naturally knew how terrifying this illness was.

The Life-Leak Syndrome, also known as Vitality Dissipation Syndrome, manifested with symptoms far beyond just cardiac asphyxiation. The cardiac asphyxiation that Grace Sullivan mentioned was only one of its symptoms. Those afflicted with this disease would not live past forty-nine, which is thirty-six years old.

Even in Ji Country, those who contracted Vitality Dissipation Syndrome could only leave their fate to the heavens. With good luck, they might last until thirty-six; with bad luck, their time could end at any moment. This syndrome was untreatable by Western medicine.

In Ji Country, there was no distinction between Western and traditional medicine, as their technology was already more advanced than Earth’s. Naturally, they had more methods to treat bacterial diseases. However, Life-Leak Syndrome could only be treated with natural herbs, and the Red Xue Flower was indeed a medicinal herb that could treat it.

The Red Xue Flower was priceless and extremely rare.

The only thing Jack Dawson couldn’t understand was why, in his previous life, he knew that the Red Xue Flower was a remedy for Life-Leak Syndrome. Even in Ji Country, only a handful of physicians knew about the Red Xue Flower.

Seeing Jack Dawson fall silent, Grace Sullivan took a bank card from her bag by the bed and handed it to Jack Dawson. “There’s some money in here. The password is all ones. You should leave Luojin for now.”

“Thank you.” Jack Dawson accepted the bank card without hesitation.

He had already decided to leave the Red Xue Flower for Grace Sullivan. He didn’t know how much money was in her bank card, but he was certain that even if Grace Sullivan gave him a hundred such cards, it still wouldn’t be enough to buy his Red Xue Flower.

Seeing Jack Dawson accept the card, Grace Sullivan was slightly stunned. She had thought Jack Dawson wouldn’t take the card. She had been prepared to do everything she could to persuade Jack Dawson to accept it, but she hadn’t expected him to take it so readily.

Maybe she had misunderstood his reason for asking for a divorce back then…

Grace Sullivan’s thoughts drifted back to the day Mark Dawson asked for a divorce. That day, Mark Dawson’s NDA test results came out—he was not Victor Dawson’s son and had lost the right to inherit the Di family business.

Although Mark Dawson, she herself, and even many outsiders knew that the reason she, Grace Sullivan, married Mark Dawson was to have the Di family save the Shen family, which was on the brink of collapse, she had already accepted her fate. She had made up her mind that since she had married Mark Dawson, she would not marry anyone else.

Grace Sullivan also knew that Mark Dawson liked her very much, so after Mark Dawson was abandoned by the Di family, she took the initiative to tell him that she would not abandon him, because she too was a patient.

Her illness was cardiac asphyxiation syndrome, which was a terminal disease on Earth.

To be struck by a terminal illness in the prime of her youth, Grace Sullivan was naturally unwilling to accept it. When none of the world’s top hospitals could treat her, she went to Wangchuan Temple to consult the abbot, Master Hongchen. Rumor had it that Master Hongchen was an enlightened monk who had treated the head of the top Italian family, the Aimohua family.

Such things were only known within the great families, and since Master Hongchen traveled constantly, even if you lived at Wangchuan Temple for years, you might never see him.

She was lucky—when she went to Wangchuan Temple, she actually met Master Hongchen.

She still remembered how the abbot took one look at her and immediately knew her illness, telling her that only the Red Xue Flower could cure her.

Grace Sullivan had never heard of the Red Xue Flower before.

When she asked the abbot where she could find the Red Xue Flower, he closed his eyes and was silent for a full ten minutes before opening them, sighing, and saying, “There should be no more Red Xue Flowers left on Earth.”

She had forgotten how she left Wangchuan Temple that day. When Mark Dawson was found not to be the heir to the Di Pharmaceutical, she didn’t want him to suffer any more blows, so she simply told him honestly that she didn’t love him, and as long as he didn’t insist on a marital relationship, she had no intention of divorcing him.

Besides that, she also told Mark Dawson that she had a terminal illness, and only the Red Xue Flower, which had disappeared from Earth, could cure her. Since the Red Xue Flower was extinct on Earth, her life would not be long. The Shen family had married her off as a form of exploitation.

In other words, they were both fallen people, so Mark Dawson didn’t need to despair over losing his right to inherit the Di family.

After she said all this, Mark Dawson instead insisted on divorcing her.

When Mark Dawson insisted on the divorce, Grace Sullivan was actually quite moved. She was sure that Mark Dawson cared too much about her, so after learning he had lost his inheritance rights and that she didn’t love him, he simply let go and set her free.

Grace Sullivan knew that even if Mark Dawson divorced her, she would still be married off by the Shen family to Mark Dawson’s younger brother, Henry Dawson. However, she was truly touched by Mark Dawson’s intentions.

After the divorce, Mark Dawson disappeared.

Now that Mark Dawson had returned and accepted her bank card without hesitation, it reminded her of a joke he made when they divorced: “As long as I divorce you, your Shen family will give me quite a bit of money. Now that I’m no longer the Di family heir, this money is very important to me.”

From what she knew of Mark Dawson, he wouldn’t have divorced her for money, but rather to keep her from suffering with him, or to make things easier for her.