Seven Seas Entertainment has picked up Secret Relationships for English print. The license covers McQueen Studio’s boys’ love office romance webtoon, which finished in 2023 and later became a live-action series. The first print volume arrives in August 2027.
Seven Seas announced the license on October 21 through its own site. The book comes out in large-trim editions under the Seven Seas Webtoons label at US$22.99 and CAD$30.99, the publisher’s usual format for webtoon conversions: taller pages, the vertical source material re-laid for paper, and a price above standard manga volumes.
The story
The story follows Daon, who grew up poor and has spent his adult life making sure he never goes back. His coworkers find the penny-pinching exhausting. Sunghyeon in particular has had enough of it, until the day Daon’s parents show up at the office asking him for money and Sunghyeon watches it happen. The two men get closer from there, and Daon has a second problem to work through: feelings for Jaemin, a former tutor and mentor, plus a secret he has kept from everyone around him.
It is a workplace romance first and a story about money second, which is a rarer combination in BL than it sounds. Daon’s frugality is the thing other people judge him for, and the plot turns on a moment of public embarrassment rather than a meet-cute.
The webtoon ran on Kakao Webtoon and passed 170 million views. An English version has been available on Tapas. It ended in 2023, so the print edition is a finished story rather than an ongoing one, and readers buying volume one are not signing up for a monthly wait.
The live-action drama widened the audience
Secret Relationships premiered as a live-action series in 2025 and streams internationally on iQIYI, including in the United States, where it is available now. It stars WEi member Jun-seo Kim alongside Sun-hyung Cha, Jung-woo Cha, and Ho-young Kim. Korean BL drama has become a reliable pipeline for webtoon-to-screen adaptations, and this one reached far enough that a Western print license followed within a year.
What the print edition actually offers
Seven Seas has built its Webtoons label around exactly this audience: people who read a series free on an app and want a shelf copy afterward, with the color pages and larger art as the reason to buy. Buyers who already own digital episodes are paying for the format, not the story. The large-trim size is the part that matters most with a webtoon, since vertical strips designed for a phone screen lose detail when squeezed into a standard manga page.
There is a scheduling wrinkle worth knowing about. Tapas, where the English version of Secret Relationships currently lives, closes on March 31, 2027. Users will lose access to episodes they have already unlocked when it shuts down, and the platform’s Ink currency is generally non-refundable. So English readers have access until that date, then a gap of about five months before the print volume lands in August. For anyone who wants to own the series rather than rent it, the Seven Seas edition is currently the only confirmed option.
Preorders have not opened. Seven Seas keeps a public release schedule on its site, and the volume should appear there once a date and page count are locked in. The August 2027 window puts the book about ten months out from the license announcement, which is the normal lead time for large-trim webtoon editions that need re-lettering and a new layout.
For anyone curious about the series right now, the drama is the quicker route. It is streaming with subtitles, it covers the completed story, and it will not vanish when a webtoon platform closes. The print comic is the version that lasts.
Seven Seas has been busy on the licensing front this month, with a batch of romance and comedy titles joining its schedule alongside this one.
Source: Seven Seas Entertainment. Cast and platform details via Anime News Network.
Featured image: Secret Relationships key art by McQueen Studio, via Tapas.
