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?"

forgot

talking about? And why haven't we talked about it before? It would have

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very merciful.

it, I knew for certain that Haruka wasn't

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

get back, unfortunately, If the king isn't in on it or

misplaced sense of loyalty or love for

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 that

it would be

"And what about you?"

and sighed. "I need to go speak to my

Informing Tsuneo at this point made 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 that this was the

everything on this side of the veil was so complicated. Then again, these are the me people who didn't seem to

found him in his office looking

my voice barely a whisper. "We

up. "What's wrong? I

to that. What

the palace. Where'd you

eyes turned frustrated.

my voice barely a whisper. "What

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a whisper. "I can't find any other tailors

are ceremonial robes associated with the Convening. They have to be right and the merchants that used

my voice barely a whisper. "They might have tailors who could help

"Not an option?"

It's just not one we

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 too

his head. "I can't.

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