The Dragon King's Substitute Bride

Chapter 128

Chapter 128

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Morgan

After I gave them an overview of everything the apothecary told me, I sent a guard to go find

Doctor Shang.

I handed the list to Anya, who scanned it carefully. Her eyes widened in shock as she recognized

the names.

"This is a bigger problem than I first thought. Bigger than we could have ever imagined. Some of these people weren't even on the list of suspects."

"I imagine that's because their families are the ones funneling the money and support."

Maya nodded. "That's more likely than not. A lot of the king's harem are noble women. They have their own money. Thrown dowries that are separate from the king's Treasury."

Do we have a way to trace that access to the kingdom's Treasury? Financial records or something?"

"Probably.What do we do?"

"We need a way to expose them. Something they can't just weasel out of."

"What if we test the royal children?"

"What?"

"If any of them are not the King's children, that would be proof they have them in loyal at minimum. We have a lot of grounds to start interrogating them about what other traitorous things they've been doing, leveraging it against their families. We could stop the money flow by

force."

Maya and I exchanged glances. "The test only tells you if the child is of the royal line though."

"There are other ways to tell lineage. What about the scroll?"

forgot

about it before? It would have

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it wasn't brought up. The king is very merciful. He probabl didn't want to have to let Ari be

access to it, I knew for certain that Haruka wasn't going to be

do it," I said, my voice barely a whisper. "Well test the royal children. Can we

king isn't in on it or doesn't agree

didn't want to chant him doing it out of some misplaced sense of

money trail

would be the easiest path

"And what about you?"

"I need to go speak

father gone on this trip, he was going to have to make a bunch of decisions. He would also be the best person to figure out how best to convince his father that this was the

so complicated. Then again, these are the me people who didn't seem

looking harried as he poured

my voice barely a whisper. "We

"What's wrong?

What

the palace. Where'd you

turned frustrated. "Merchant

barely a whisper. "What are you

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"Not good," he replied, his voice barely a whisper. "I can't find any other

Convening. They have to be right and the merchants that used to make them

kingdoms or territories," I said, my voice barely a whisper. "They might have tailors who could help

"Not an option?"

It's just not one we would have ever thought

the easiest

"Which is?"

his shoulder. "Take a break," I said, my voice soft. "You've been working

shook his head. "I can't. We

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