Dugu Yan's words instantly froze the smile on Dugu Bo's face.
He fell silent for a moment, then sighed. His voice was somewhat hoarse. "Yanyan, it's not that Grandpa didn't want to tell you. It's that Grandpa truly had no way to help."
Dugu Bo raised his head and looked at his granddaughter, who had gradually grown up, his eyes filled with affection and guilt.
"Grandpa had been poisoned for a long time before I discovered the problem. By the time I wanted to correct it, your parents had already been poisoned."
"Grandpa could barely suppress the poison only because of certain fortuitous opportunities and my immense Soul Power. But your parents didn't have the same conditions, so all I could do was delay the poison's onset."
He paused, his voice growing even lower.
"How laughable. Grandpa took poison as his title and became a Titled Douluo, yet I let my own son and daughter-in-law die of poisoning, powerless to save them."
"This has been a wound in Grandpa's heart, buried deep within me all these years. I've never spoken of it to anyone."
As Dugu Yan listened, her lips trembled slightly, and her eyes had already reddened.
She thought of her parents. The reason given to the outside world had been that they passed away from illness caused by injuries, and even she had believed that.
She had never expected it to have been poisoning.
"After you were born, Grandpa began closely watching your condition. How I wished the inherited poison was merely an exception, but when I saw your unusual hair and pupils, I knew that you had been poisoned too."
Dugu Bo reached out and gently stroked his granddaughter's hair, his eyes full of heartache.
"All these years, Grandpa has been searching for a way to treat