
let’s pretend this never existed..

"Work Love Balance" isn't ruining the story. It's deepening it.
What you're seeing—those disagreements, miscommunications, doubts—is what happens when love leaves the fantasy space and enters real life. Especially in a workplace, with career pressure, expectations, and personal baggage in play, these struggles make Yiyoung and Daehyung feel more human.
It gives them more opportunities to explore themselves and each other and what they want for the future.
Romance isn't just about being happy together—it's about learning how to stay together through uncertainty, how to listen when it's hard, and how to choose each other over and over again, even when life gets complicated.
If anything, Love Work Balance is honoring the relationship by showing that it’s strong enough to be tested. Not all readers want that. And that is just sad

After reading the backstory im confused why the ml didn’t treat the mc nicely when they met each other again..

I'm pretty sure it's because ML had suppressed his feelings. ML only remembered the bad which is MC leaving and realistically when we've been hurt we only remember the bad. Plus, think about it, it's been 10 years and that's enough time to deeply suppress things you don't want to think about. Yet, the more time ML and MC spent tgt and the more ML saw glimpses of what MC had been through the more those buried feelings are starting to slowly flow back to the surface.

Because in his eyes, MC abandoned him? Yeongwoon suddenly cut him off after Seo-in was forced to kiss his adoptive brother and implied being his friend was a burden. The only person Seo-in ever truly liked and the only person who treated him with love then left him and ran away. Not to mention he probably has some sort of personality disorder that makes it very hard for him to put that behind
just comeee baaaackk to mee
The official english translations are coming back on the 28