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."

a moment, warming as he

great student." He looked down at Kai. "Are you ready

hand. Kai followed the man inside.

time before disappearing into the

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me like a familiar shroud, but

as simple as acknowledging

a sense of time,

themselves.

mind. Was that the secret to my father's wisdom?

conserve as much of it as possible. Repeating the same battles, the same struggles, never trying to make things better would indeed be miserable. It

my wife's human experience

day that

shelves stacked high with ledgers, records, and scrolls that held the history and affairs of the palace. The door to

or

from the treasury. My fingers traced the lines of figures,

palace's ledgers were meticulously kept-or they 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

a better sense of things and how much money

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with mother, going over the books, learning to

issue fairly quickly and taken care of it. This felt like the same pattern as then too, so it

wasn't sure who was bold enough to steal from the palace again using the same techniques, but I could bet they weren't a

They ha

the royal family, but who

over the years?

deer with a

and stood, my mind already working through the possibilities. This would require more than a casual investigation, and I wasn't sure if we had the time to do it before the Convening, but I could

recently. I opened it again, flipping to where the funds should

and nodded.

too, so someone among the Elders had to be involved,