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 about

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

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is very

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

whisper. "Well test the royal children. Can we do it while they're gone? Or do we have to wait till

might be better to do it when they get back, unfortunately, If the king isn't in on it or

want to chant him doing it out of some misplaced sense

working 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 he doesn't have a chance to have any

would be the easiest

"And what about you?"

"I need to go speak

to him. 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

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

found him in his office looking harried

my voice barely a whisper.

"What's wrong? I felt

that. What are you

the palace. Where'd you

turned frustrated. "Merchant

asked, my voice barely a whisper.

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papers in 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 are you looking

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

territories," I said, my voice barely a whisper. "They might have tailors who could help us." Tsuneo's eyes

"Not an option?"

not that. It's just not one we would have ever

the easiest

"Which is?"

hand resting gently on his shoulder. "Take a break," I said, my voice soft. "You've been working

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

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