Sold a Boyfriend Instead of a Mulberry Tree

I paid his rent, funded his dreams, and still, Sean gave his heart to someone else. Now, as a new, eager sugar baby tries to buy my affection with charm and ambition, I wonder if I’m just another transaction in this city of deals. When love is bought and loyalty is always for sale, who’s really using who?

Five years of love—gone the moment my fiancée tasted money. Her family’s run-down trailer became a golden ticket, and suddenly I was just another bidder for her heart. When she demanded $150,000 or five condos to marry her, I realized: I was nothing but a price tag, and the girl I loved was already gone.

Breakups, best friends, and a campus obsessed with fruit—Brooke thought running at night would help her escape the drama. Instead, her ex launches a social media smear campaign, a single photo turns her into a meme queen, and a string of cantaloupe deliveries spark a rivalry that’s equal parts hilarious and heartwarming. From loudspeaker revenge to movie date disasters and a Taylor Swift concert gone sideways, Brooke and Carter’s petty battles hide a sweeter truth: sometimes love means risking public humiliation and eating your least favorite fruit. But when a kidnapping mix-up and a viral forum post threaten to upend everything, will Brooke finally choose between old wounds and a fresh start? Or is she destined to go down in history as the girl who dumped a campus legend over a cantaloupe?

Eli travels to his girlfriend Savannah’s hometown to propose, only to face shocking betrayal as her family demands an outrageous dowry and a condo for her brother. When a family tragedy strikes, Eli must choose between love and self-respect, as the line between wedding and funeral blurs. The stakes couldn’t be higher—his heart, his future, and his family’s well-being hang in the balance.

Rachel gifts her boyfriend a brand-new SUV—only to watch another woman take over the front seat, her space, and even her shoes. Every morning, Maddie rides shotgun while Rachel gets pushed to the back, her presence erased piece by piece. When Rachel finally fights back, she's branded 'crazy' and left in the rain, realizing the car she paid for drove her love straight into someone else's arms.

After sacrificing everything to buy his fiancée her dream home, Jason is blindsided when Natalie dumps him the second the contract is signed—leaving him broke and betrayed. But what she doesn’t know is, Jason has every receipt and a secret plan for revenge. When love is a transaction, payback comes with interest.

Emily was traded to the Walkers with nothing but a battered backpack and the promise that, if she could fill a pickle jar with hard-earned coins, Evan Walker would marry her. Mocked, starved, and forced to fight for every crumb of dignity, Emily’s dream of belonging shatters when she learns the engagement was meant for another family all along. Now, with her jar finally full and Evan’s cruel games exposed, she must choose: the cold comfort of wealth or the honest poverty—and unexpected tenderness—of the Walters’ son.

He sold his house a month before our wedding—and didn’t even tell me until it was done. At first, I tried to brush off the unease, but a lawyer’s question made me wonder if I knew the man I was about to marry at all. Every text, every excuse, every strange suggestion—renting, investing, splitting everything fifty-fifty—only made things murkier. When I tested him with a lie of my own, his mask slipped, and what I found at his supposed house shocked me. Now, with the wedding looming, I have to decide: is Lucas hiding a harmless secret, or am I about to walk down the aisle with a stranger? What else has he been keeping from me?

He was my sun, my secret, and my undoing. As the Lane family’s loyal attendant, I grew up loving Ethan from the shadows—until the day he traded my trust for his own ambition, poisoning me and selling me to Magnolia House. Stripped of my voice and dignity, I become a silent prize in a world of velvet cruelty and whispered deals, caught between the ruthless Marquis Carter and the man who once swore to save me. Yet every humiliation is a test: how much pain can love survive, and how far will power go to bury the truth? When a forbidden night puts me back in Ethan’s sights, will I find freedom—or lose what’s left of my soul? What does a broken boy do when even hope becomes a weapon?

Noah was always Rachel’s loyal backup, her doormat with a price tag, clinging to scraps of her glittering world. She paid him to be her boyfriend, but his heart broke every time she chased after the boy she truly wanted. When she finally tossed him aside—apartment and all—Noah must decide if he’ll stay her paid shadow or risk everything for a love that won’t leave him behind.

On my birthday, my fiancé’s mistress crashed the party—pregnant and desperate, while the whole town waited for me to break. Instead, I slipped the engagement bracelet onto her wrist and walked out, leaving Maple Heights and my old life behind. But when Ethan tries to win me back with public humiliation and a new 'apology' bracelet, I’m forced to choose: reclaim my dignity, or let him—and my family—destroy what’s left of my heart.

Sold to save my father’s company, I ended up pregnant with a man who only sees me as a bargaining chip. Now my secret could destroy us both—especially if my ruthless father or possessive lover discovers the truth. With nowhere to run, how do I choose between shame, survival, and a child no one can ever know about?