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? And why haven't we talked about it before? It would have cleared up the

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

it, I knew for certain that Haruka wasn't

test the royal children. Can

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 of loyalty or love

for their families. I want to at least have most of the money trail together

it would be the easiest path

"And what about you?"

and sighed. "I need to go

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

side of the veil was so complicated. Then again, these are the me people who didn't seem to have any security around Tsuneo's room before I got

office looking harried as

I said, my voice barely

"What's wrong?

that. What are you

palace. Where'd

eyes turned

barely a

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front of him. "Not good," he replied, his voice barely a whisper. "I can't find any other tailors who are capable of making the robes in time." "What robes

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

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

"Not an option?"

just not one we would have ever

the

"Which is?"

gently on his shoulder. "Take a break," I said,

"I can't. We don't

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