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

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

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wasn't brought up. The king is very merciful. He probabl didn't

scroll still existed and we had access to it, I knew for

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

isn't in on it or doesn't agree with doing

doing it out of some misplaced sense of loyalty or

trail together before they get back to make

would be

"And what about you?"

sighed. "I need to

future King, and it was his duty to protect the kingdom. With his father gone on this trip,

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

office looking harried as he

my voice barely a whisper. "We need to

looked up. "What's wrong? I

get to that. What are

palace. Where'd you

turned frustrated. "Merchant

asked, my voice barely a whisper. "What

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eyes scanning the 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

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

barely a whisper. "They might have tailors who could help us." Tsuneo's eyes

"Not an option?"

that. It's just not one we

the

"Which is?"

resting gently on his shoulder. "Take

"I can't. We don't

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