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 the

you're talking about? And why haven't we talked about it before? It would have

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

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

voice barely a whisper. "Well test the royal children. Can we do it

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

misplaced sense of loyalty or love for

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

would be the easiest

"And what about you?"

"I need to go

what I was going to 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

again, these are the me people who didn't seem to have any security around

found him in his office looking harried as he

said, my voice barely a whisper. "We need to

"What's wrong? I

to that. What are you

palace. Where'd

turned frustrated.

going?" I asked, my voice barely a whisper. "What are you looking

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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

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

to the neighboring kingdoms or territories," I said, my voice barely a whisper. "They might have tailors who could help us." Tsuneo's

"Not an option?"

not that. It's just not one we would

the easiest

"Which is?"

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

can't.

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