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

we talked about it before? It would have cleared up the whole thing

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is very

knew for certain that Haruka wasn't going to be as forgiving as Hayato

said, my voice barely a whisper. "Well test the royal children. Can we do it while they're gone? Or do we have to wait till

the king isn't in on it or doesn't

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

least have most of the money trail together before they

would be

"And what about you?"

stood and sighed. "I need to go speak to my

the kingdom. With his father gone on this trip, he was going to have to make

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

looking harried

voice barely

up. "What's wrong? I felt

get to that. What are

the palace. Where'd you

turned frustrated. "Merchant

my voice barely a

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"Not good," he replied, his voice barely a whisper. "I can't find

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

a

"Not an option?"

one

there's the easiest

"Which is?"

on his shoulder. "Take a break," I said, my voice

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

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