My Cheap Dad Really Is Cheap: He Swapped the Crown Prince for a Cat

The world falls into chaos, and the feudal lords rise up. The male lead should have been the true crown prince of the suzerain state, but he was switched at birth. He ends up in a foreign land, raised by the enemy as a weapon of revenge. His biological father is a brilliant ruler who nearly united the lands north and south of the great river, but the male lead manages to thwart him on the battlefield five, six, seven, eight times. With no other choice, the male lead's adoptive father decides to make peace. His biological father sees no objection, but demands that the male lead be killed to vent his anger. His adoptive father readily agrees and immediately sends the male lead off to the enemy state. With life and death hanging in the balance on the battlefield, the soldiers resent the male lead to one degree or another, and he is put through so much that he nearly loses his life. Meanwhile, his biological father is slowly making his way to the border with the full imperial entourage. When he finally arrives, he realizes that, for some reason, the male lead looks just like his beloved late empress, the woman he had lost long ago. And that's when the road to redemption begins…