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

why haven't we talked about it before?

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

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

do it," I said, my voice barely a whisper. "Well test the royal children. Can

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

want to chant him doing it out of some misplaced sense of loyalty or love for the kids that weren't

the money trail together before they get back to

it would be

"And what about you?"

"I need to go speak to

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

complicated. Then again, these are the me people who didn't

looking

barely a whisper. "We need to

looked up. "What's

get to that. What are

palace. Where'd

eyes turned

barely a whisper. "What are you

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papers in front of him. "Not good," he replied, his voice barely a whisper. "I

They have to be right and the merchants that

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 widened in disbelief. "Are

"Not an option?"

not one we would have ever thought

the

"Which is?"

shoulder. "Take a break," I said, my voice soft. "You've been

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

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