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?"

"I forgot about the

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

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king is very merciful. He

scroll still existed and we had access to it, I knew for certain that Haruka wasn't going to be

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

king isn't in on it

him doing it out of some misplaced sense

these records for their families. I want to at least have most of the money trail together before they get back to make

be the

"And what about you?"

"I need

say 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 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 best

Then again, these are the

his office looking harried as he poured over

I said, my voice barely a whisper.

looked up. "What's wrong?

get to that. What

palace.

turned frustrated. "Merchant

going?" I asked, my voice barely a whisper.

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a whisper. "I

to be right and the merchants that used to make

the neighboring kingdoms or territories," I said, my voice barely a whisper. "They might have tailors

"Not an option?"

not one we

the

"Which is?"

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

head. "I can't.

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