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."

moment, warming as he bowed

He looked down

my hand. Kai followed the man

time before disappearing

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the silence returned, wapping around me like a familiar shroud, but it wasn't uncomfortable. Even Tarofu seemed a little more at

taught me that. Something as simple as acknowledging someone by name is the first brick for a strong foundation. I chuckled. Your

that those with a sense of time, understand the value

themselves.

that the secret to my father's

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

a lot more from my wife's human experience

that you will teach her something that she will

of the palace. The door to the left led

or

the treasury. My fingers traced the lines of figures, just checking to make sure that things were in order,

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

chair, flipping through the documents to get a better sense of things and how much money was truly missing. This wasn't the first

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child, sitting with mother, going over the books,

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

was bold enough to steal from the palace again using the same techniques, but I

They ha

a member of the royal family, but who had my father given

over the years?

deer with a

the snap 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

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

and nodded.

had to be