Our Secret Alliance Reading Guide: 75 Chapters, App vs Web

This Our Secret Alliance reading guide skips the score. Our full review already covers that verdict: 8.0/10, an equal-stakes fake-dating structure that earns its warmth, thin side characters as the main knock. What's here instead is what comes up once you've decided to actually start: where to read all 75 chapters, why the platform's own website won't show you most of them, and whether the ending holds up.

TL;DR: Our Secret Alliance reading guide: 75 chapters, fully finished. WEBTOON's website only hosts Episodes 1-13 for free; Chapter 14 onward requires the WEBTOON app. Original story, no prerequisite reading. Readers who finished it call the ending satisfying, and a full read runs roughly 3-4 hours.

Our Secret Alliance Reading Guide: Key Takeaways

• 75 total chapters, status: finished. No ongoing release to track.
• WEBTOON's desktop and mobile-browser episode list stops at Episode 13. The remaining 62 chapters are app-only.
• Cakenyam's original story. Nothing to read beforehand, no light novel source.
• Reader consensus points to the opening ~10 chapters as the slowest stretch; pacing improves after that.
• AniList tags "Love Triangle," but community reports describe it as mild, not a dragged-out subplot.
• A full read takes roughly 3-4 hours at normal pace.

Overview

Our Secret Alliance ran on Naver Webtoon in Korea from January 2022 to June 2023, then got an official English release on WEBTOON starting May 2022. It's 75 chapters, fully complete, with no announced spinoff. This guide covers everything a new reader needs before opening Episode 1: the platform split between web and app, a pacing note from readers who've actually finished it, and a straight answer on the ending. It doesn't re-cover the plot summary, the art analysis, or the pros-and-cons breakdown; that's the review's job.

One thing worth knowing going in: this is Cakenyam's original concept, written and drawn by one person, not adapted from a novel. There's no companion material to track down and no alternate translation to compare against. Episode 1 is the actual starting point, full stop.

How to Read Our Secret Alliance, Step by Step

1. Start at Episode 1 on WEBTOON, not the app store listing first. The series launched with three episodes posted simultaneously on May 7, 2022, then settled into a weekly Friday-ish cadence. There's no cold open you need context for going in; it starts with the setup.

2. Read Episodes 1 through 13 straight through on the website. That's the full run WEBTOON's own desktop and browser listing displays for free, dated May 7 through July 15, 2022. No login is required to read this stretch.

3. Expect the site to stop you at Episode 13 with an app prompt. Both pages of the official episode list end in a "Read more episodes on the app!" banner and a QR code. There is no Episode 14 link anywhere on the browser version as of this guide. If you're reading on desktop expecting to finish all 75 chapters in a browser tab, you can't; the remaining 62 chapters are gated behind the WEBTOON mobile app.

4. Download the WEBTOON app before you finish Episode 13, not after. Saves you the dead end. It's free on the App Store and Google Play, and your progress doesn't carry over automatically unless you're logged into the same WEBTOON account on both.

5. Push through the first stretch even if the female lead's choices frustrate you early on. This is the most consistent complaint in reader discussion of the series: the opening chapters draw some irritation before the story pivots into the leads actually paying attention to each other. Readers who stuck with it past the early chapters describe the back half moving noticeably better than the setup.

6. Read to the end. There's no separate bonus arc to chase down afterward. The side-story content readers mention is already counted inside the 75 chapters, not released as an extra. Once Chapter 75 is done, the series is done.

If the platform-gating question has you wondering what else to line up next, has more completed picks in the same length range.

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The Chapters WEBTOON's Website Won't Show You

This is the part the review doesn't get into, because it matters for reading logistics, not for the verdict. Checking WEBTOON's own episode list for Our Secret Alliance directly turns up only 13 chapters across two browser pages, running May 7 to July 15, 2022. Both pages carry the same notice: "Read more episodes on the app!" with a QR code pointing to the App Store and Google Play. There's no Episode 14 hyperlink, no "load more" button, no way to keep reading in a browser.

That's a meaningful gap. Thirteen out of 75 chapters is roughly 17% of the total story available on desktop. The other 83% exists only inside WEBTOON's app. This isn't unique to Our Secret Alliance. Plenty of older completed WEBTOON originals get restricted to app-only reading for their back catalog, but it's easy to miss if you're used to reading everything in a browser tab and assume a "completed" tag means the whole thing is sitting there waiting for you.

In practice, if you want to finish this series, plan on the app from Chapter 14 forward. The chapters themselves aren't announced as paid or fast-pass-locked on the pages we could check, but confirming that requires the app itself. This guide can verify what the website shows and doesn't show, not what's behind the app's paywall on a given day.

Tips for Reading Our Secret Alliance

Don't take the "Love Triangle" tag too literally. AniList lists it among the series' official tags, and it's not wrong exactly, but readers who finished the story consistently describe it as low-key. There's a connection involving a third character early on, not a drawn-out arc that delays Se-I and Jae-Ha getting together. If a messy triangle subplot is a dealbreaker for you, that's not really what this is.

Watch the little sister character once she shows up. More than one reader flagged her as the one actively pushing the leads toward each other, not just reacting to the plot from the sidelines. Small role, but if you're tracking who's actually doing the work of moving the romance forward, it isn't always the two leads themselves.

Don't confuse this with Cakenyam's other series, Falling For It. AniList credits Cakenyam as story and art on one other title, Falling For It (Sogajugosipeo in Korean), which is still releasing. It's unconnected to Our Secret Alliance: different cast, different premise, so there's no reading-order relationship between the two despite sharing a creator.

Budget a single sitting, not a week. At 75 chapters and a completed status, this isn't the kind of series that benefits from being rationed out. Most completed romance webtoons in this chapter range read in one long session or two shorter ones; there's no weekly cliffhanger structure to pace yourself around anymore.

Is the Ending Worth It?

Short answer: readers who actually finished the series say yes, and that's worth separating from the review's rating, which already flags the final third as feeling a little rushed. "Rushed" and "unsatisfying" aren't the same complaint. In the reader discussion around the finale, the ending resolves the central relationship cleanly and closes out questions the story left open earlier, rather than trailing off or padding itself out with an unnecessary extra arc once the couple gets together. One recurring comment runs close to the opposite of what you'd expect going in: not that the ending feels abrupt, but that dragging it out further would have made it worse.

That tracks with the chapter count. Most fake-dating romance manhwa in this general lane run 150 to 200-plus chapters and spend a real stretch of that count on delay: manufactured misunderstandings, will-they-won't-they cycles that exist to pad the release schedule rather than develop anything. At 75 chapters, Our Secret Alliance doesn't have room for that kind of padding, and the ending reflects it: readers who finished the run aren't reporting the story overstaying its welcome, which is a more common complaint on longer completed romance webtoons.

For another completed WEBTOON romance with a similarly tight structure worth comparing against, see the .

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Related Reading

• Our Secret Alliance Review: the full 8.0/10 verdict, the art breakdown, and the pros-and-cons list this guide skips
• Best Romance Manhwa 2026: more completed romance picks in a similar chapter range
• See You in My 19th Life Review: another recently completed WEBTOON romance worth comparing against
• Who Made Me a Princess Review: a different completed romance with comparable emotional structure

Frequently Asked Questions

How many chapters does Our Secret Alliance have?

75 chapters, and the series is fully finished. AniList lists all 75 as published with no additional side stories tacked on separately; readers who finished the run confirm the side-story content is folded into that same 75-chapter count, not released as a separate spinoff.

Can I read all of Our Secret Alliance for free on the WEBTOON website?

Only the first 13 chapters. WEBTOON's desktop and mobile browser listing for Our Secret Alliance stops at Episode 13 and displays a "Read more episodes on the app!" banner with a QR code for the rest. Chapter 14 through the finale require the WEBTOON app.

Where should I start reading Our Secret Alliance?

Episode 1 on WEBTOON. The series is Cakenyam's original story, not adapted from a novel or prior work, so there's no source material to read first and no alternate entry point to sequence in.

Is the ending of Our Secret Alliance satisfying?

Readers who finished the series generally say yes. The closing chapters resolve the central relationship cleanly and answer questions the story raised earlier, without extending the run past the point the premise could support.

Does Our Secret Alliance have a love triangle?

AniList tags the series with "Love Triangle," but readers who finished it describe the actual execution as mild. There's a connection between the leads and one other character early on, not a dragged-out three-way conflict that delays the main couple getting together.

How long does it take to read Our Secret Alliance?

Figure roughly 3 to 4 hours for all 75 chapters at a normal reading pace, similar to other completed romance webtoons in this length range. That's a single-weekend read, not a multi-week commitment.

Does Cakenyam have other manhwa besides Our Secret Alliance?

Yes. AniList credits Cakenyam as story and art on one other ongoing series, Falling For It (Korean title Sogajugosipeo), which is currently releasing. It isn't connected to Our Secret Alliance and isn't required reading.

References

• Our Secret Alliance on WEBTOON
• Our Secret Alliance on AniList
• Cakenyam staff page, AniList