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

why haven't we talked about it

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think that's why it wasn't brought up. The king is very merciful. He probabl didn't want to have to let

we had access to it, I knew for certain that Haruka wasn't going to be as forgiving as

Can we do it

king isn't in on it or doesn't agree with doing it, he could override it and have it stricken from the

misplaced sense of loyalty or love for the kids

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

"And what about you?"

and sighed. "I need to go speak to my

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

again, these are the me people who didn't seem to have any security around Tsuneo's room

office looking harried

said, my voice barely a whisper. "We need

"What's wrong?

that. What are you looking

the palace. Where'd

eyes turned frustrated.

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

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his eyes scanning the papers in front of him. "Not good," he replied, his voice barely a whisper. "I can't find any other tailors

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

could try reaching out to the neighboring kingdoms or territories," I said, my voice barely a whisper. "They

"Not an option?"

that. It's just not one we would

there's the easiest

"Which is?"

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

head. "I can't. We

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