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 the

scroll you're talking about? And why haven't we talked about it before? It would have cleared up the

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why it wasn't brought up. The king is very

if the scroll still existed and we had access to it, I knew

do it," I said, my voice barely a whisper. "Well test the royal children. Can we do it while they're gone? Or

on it or doesn't agree with doing it, he could override

doing it out of some misplaced sense of loyalty

at least have most of the money trail together before

would be

"And what about you?"

sighed. "I need to go speak to my

father gone on this trip, he was going to have to make a bunch of

couldn't help but wonder why everything on this side of the veil was so complicated. Then again, these are the me people who didn't seem to have any security around Tsuneo's room before I got

his office looking harried as

said, my voice barely a whisper. "We need to

"What's

to that. What are you looking

palace. Where'd

turned

my voice barely a whisper.

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barely a whisper. "I can't find any other tailors who are

are ceremonial robes associated with the Convening. They have to be right and the merchants that used to make them

voice barely a whisper. "They might have tailors

"Not an option?"

that. It's just not one we would

the

"Which is?"

reached out, my hand resting gently on his shoulder. "Take a break," I said, my voice soft. "You've been working

"I can't. We don't

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