The Dragon King's Substitute Bride

Chapter 106

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Tsuneo

His eyes lit up and he threw his arms around my legs, squeezing tight. I pat his head.

I'll be the best little brother," he said soft and carnest.

"Of that, I have no doubt."

He looked up. "Are you going to be there for dinner too? You have lots of work to do, right?"

""I'll do my best."

He nodded. "Do you have to stay in the palace all day? Or do you get to go outside sometimes?"

"Sometimes.

That sounds boring," he remarked with a small pout. "I bet I could help. I'm really good at organizing things."

A faint smirk tugged at the corner of my lips. "Is that so?"

"Yup!" Kai said proudly. "Just you wait until I can read and right. I'll be the best helper ever."

Better than Lady Morgan?"

de flushed. "I don't know about that."

chuckled, squeezing him to my side as we reached the room.

You're a smart man."

knocked on the door. His tutor, an elderly man with a stern expression, opened the dor. He was ew and a bit unfamiliar to me, but Tarofu gave me his name. Master Neo," I nodded. "Thank you for educating him."

for a moment, warming as he bowed his

student." He looked down at

Kai followed the man inside. The boy glanced

last time before disappearing into the

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wapping around me like a familiar shroud, but it wasn't uncomfortable. Even Tarofu seemed a

as simple as acknowledging someone by name is the first brick for a strong foundation. I chuckled. Your wife

those with a sense of time, understand the value of using that time

themselves.

secret to my father's wisdom? I couldn't say that

want to conserve as much of it as possible. Repeating the

from my wife's human experience than I

it, and the day that you will teach her

my way to my father's office. The office was dimly lit, the shelves stacked high with ledgers, records, and scrolls that held the history and affairs of the palace. The door to the left led into my own office. I

or

desk, flipping open the latest report from the treasury. My fingers traced the lines of figures, just checking

were supposed to be. But as I scanned the most recent entries, I noticed several inconsistencies. There were several large sums of money that had vanished it seemed. Not all at once, but in little increments that wouldn't have seemed strange at the first glance. I couldn't take the time to trace all of the amounts

documents to get a better sense of things and how much money was truly missing. This wasn't

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child, sitting with mother, going over the books, learning to

quickly and taken care of it. This felt like the same pattern

again using the same techniques, but I could bet they weren't a

They ha

be a member of the royal family, but who had my

over the years?

deer with a

investigation, and I wasn't sure if we had the time to do it before the Convening,

I opened it again, flipping to

and nodded.

supplies missing from there, too, so someone among the Elders had to be involved, too. A dead one?