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

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The king is very merciful. He probabl didn't want to have to let Ari be

had access to it, I knew for

said, my voice barely a whisper. "Well test the royal children. Can we do it while

If the king isn't in on it or doesn't agree with doing it, he could

some misplaced sense of

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

be the easiest path

"And what about you?"

sighed. "I need to go speak to

his duty to protect the kingdom. With his father gone on this trip, he was going

on this side of the veil was so complicated. Then again, these are

his office looking harried as he poured over

barely a

looked up. "What's

to that. What are

the palace. Where'd you

turned frustrated. "Merchant

my voice barely

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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 other tailors who are capable of making the robes in time." "What

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

try reaching out to the neighboring kingdoms or territories," I said, my voice barely a whisper. "They might have tailors who could help us." Tsuneo's eyes widened in disbelief.

"Not an option?"

just not one

there's the easiest

"Which is?"

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

shook his head. "I can't. We don't have

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