Tuoba Jun belonged to the main direct lineage of the Tuoba Imperial Family and held a claim to the throne. Unfortunately, starting from his grandfather and continuing down to his father, neither of them had any interest in imperial power and simply coasted along, allowing their sphere of influence to be nearly devoured by various cousins.
Yet Tuoba Jun was ambitious and driven. Even faced with such a terrible starting hand, he rose fiercely on a faint glimmer of hope, and now he could stand toe-to-toe with the Imperial Family's main branch. One could say that Tuoba Jun's words carried nearly as much weight within the Tuoba Imperial Family as those of the Emperor himself.
Haitang was a distant cousin of Tuoba Jun, of the rather infrequently contacted variety... but regardless, they were cousins, and that was an absolute fact.
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