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

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

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wasn't brought up. The king is very merciful.

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

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

to chant him doing it out of some misplaced sense

on these records for their families. I want to at least have most of the money trail together before they get back to make sure

it would be the easiest path

"And what about you?"

and sighed. "I need to go speak

the most sense. 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 how best to convince his father

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

him in his office looking harried as

voice barely a whisper. "We need

looked up. "What's

to that. What are

palace. Where'd

turned

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

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"Not good," he replied, his voice barely a whisper. "I

right and the merchants that used to make them are all well...

reaching out to the neighboring kingdoms or territories," I said, my voice barely a whisper. "They might have tailors who could help us." Tsuneo's eyes

"Not an option?"

that. It's just not one we would

there's the easiest

"Which is?"

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

can't. We

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