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?"

"I forgot

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

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king is very merciful. He probabl didn't want to have to

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

whisper. "Well test the royal children. Can we do

get back, unfortunately, If the king isn't in on it or doesn't agree with doing it, he could override it and have

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

I want to at least have most of the money trail together

would be the

"And what about you?"

sighed. "I need to go

He was the future King, and it was his duty to protect the 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

Then again, these are the me people who didn't seem to have any security around Tsuneo's room before I got

found him in his office looking harried as he poured over

said, my voice barely a whisper.

looked up. "What's

that. What are you looking

the palace. Where'd you

eyes turned frustrated.

it going?" I asked, my voice barely a whisper. "What

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sighed, his 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 capable of making the robes

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

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

"Not an option?"

one we

the easiest

"Which is?"

talk about it." I reached out, my hand resting gently on his shoulder.

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

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