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?"

flinched. "I forgot about

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

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very merciful. He probabl didn't want to have to let Ari be

scroll still existed and we had access to it, I knew for certain that Haruka wasn't

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

it or doesn't agree with doing it, he could override it and have it stricken

chant him doing it out of some misplaced sense of loyalty or love

trail together before they get back to make sure that

would be the

"And what about you?"

stood and sighed. "I need to

kingdom. With his 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

so complicated. Then again, these are the me

office looking harried

barely a whisper. "We

"What's wrong?

What are

palace. Where'd you

eyes turned

voice barely a whisper. "What are

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eyes scanning the papers in front of him. "Not good," he replied, his voice barely a whisper. "I can't find any other tailors who are

to be right and the merchants that used to make them

a whisper. "They might have tailors who

"Not an option?"

not one we

the

"Which is?"

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

his head. "I can't. We don't have much

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