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?"

flinched. "I forgot about the

we talked about it before? It would have cleared up the

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

had access to it, I knew for certain that Haruka

it," I said, my voice barely a whisper. "Well test the royal children. Can we do it while they're gone? Or do

isn't in on it or

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

have most of the money trail together before they get back to make

be the

"And what about you?"

need to

out 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 make a bunch of decisions. He would also be the best person to figure out how best

couldn't help but wonder why everything on this side of 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

in his office looking harried as he

barely a whisper. "We need

"What's wrong? I

to that. What are you looking

the palace. Where'd

eyes turned frustrated.

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

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his eyes scanning the papers in front of him. "Not good," he replied, his voice barely a whisper. "I can't find any

Convening. They have to be right

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

"Not an option?"

not that. It's just not one we would

the easiest

"Which is?"

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

head. "I can't. We

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