Yeah, I agree. Looking back, he clearly cared about winning his match; he doesn't care about his wealth. There must be something meaningful behind it, but things did end up spiraling out of control after his birthday. There were red flags, but Dan only realized them after being blindsided.
Dan and JJK didn’t have a romantic relationship; it was more of a professional one. JJK paid Dan for consensual acts, initially due to his jinx, but it evolved into a "feels good" situation. However, the way JJK treated Dan is unacceptable. It’s not romantic, but there’s still a relationship. Dan deserves to be treated right; his behavior is inexcusable.
I do want JJK to suffer more. His dishonesty really pissed me off. As I see it, he seems to be looking for Dan to satisfy himself, making him believe that he did nothing wrong. I don’t need 20 chapters, just 5 or 10 with long panels that reflect more time passing in their timeline or actions.
Don’t yell at me for what I’m going to say. I will NEVER find any excuse to Jaekyung behaviour. But at this point, the only explanation I could vaguely find for him being so stupid, emotionless, capricious and rude is that he never experienced positive feelings till his birth. Like he was orphan maybe abused and he could only survive by fighting. He became a superstar in a flash but his inner self is still emptiness when he became more and more selfish.
Like I said, I don’t want to find him excuse but we all know where the story is going and that they will meet again. Like you I wan’t Jaekyung to really and sincerely apologize to Dan but first he need to understand and feel regretful. He’s clearly not ready for this.
The best could be that he realize what he did and finally give up on Dan but we all guess that won’t gonna happen because this is a tipical BL with lots of cliché.