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 about the

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

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

it, I knew for certain that Haruka wasn't

Can

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

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

at least have most of the money trail together before they get back to make sure that he doesn't have

it would be the

"And what about you?"

"I need to go speak to my

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 how best to convince his father

veil was so complicated. Then again, these are the me people who

his office looking

I said, my voice barely a whisper.

"What's

get to that. What

the palace. Where'd

turned

barely a whisper.

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his voice barely a whisper. "I can't find any other tailors who are capable of making the robes in

ceremonial robes associated with the Convening. They have to be right and the

the neighboring kingdoms or territories," I said, my voice barely a whisper. "They might have tailors who could help us." Tsuneo's eyes widened in disbelief. "Are you

"Not an option?"

just not one we would have ever

the easiest

"Which is?"

my hand resting gently on his shoulder. "Take a break," I

"I can't. We don't

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