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

And why haven't we talked about

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

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

children. Can we do it while they're gone? Or do

when they get back, unfortunately, If the king isn't in on it or doesn't agree with doing it, he could

want to chant him doing it out of some misplaced sense of loyalty or love for

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

it would be the easiest

"And what about you?"

sighed. "I need

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 plan for the

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

in his office looking harried as

barely a whisper. "We need to

"What's wrong?

to that. What are you looking

palace. Where'd you

eyes turned frustrated. "Merchant

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

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a whisper. "I can't find any other tailors who are capable of making the robes in time." "What robes are you

with the Convening. They have to be right and

barely a

"Not an option?"

not that. It's just not one we

the easiest

"Which is?"

reached out, my hand resting gently on his shoulder. "Take a break," I said, my

his head. "I can't. We

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