
It’s not that he’s not hateable, he’s a dirtbag. But it’s that this author has successfully made a character go from hateable to really popular. I think they’ve probably taken it a step too far this time, but at the same time he’s a fictional character, who cares? Seungho from painter of the night was scum but he became one of the best love interest in manhwa

Just because he's fictional doesn't mean people will not care.
It's the way Mingwa just refuses to even just inch forward towards any sort of character developement, instead getting progressively worse with how JJ acts given we are shown hints of there being a light at the horizon but then Mingwa immediately going back to noping the fuck outta that. And this happens constantly as of late.
That's why saying the hate for the character seems 'forced' when each chapter is basically adding a new reason is nonsensical to me.
Taking other characters as reference is something I stopped doing tbh.
Many characters are the exact same, but some authors can simply not be bothered to put in effort in making them detailed and have an actual character developement. Instead it's usually: all of a sudden going from a slow pace to BAM, here, they are good now, all is forgiven, happy ending, done. Have some more sex secnes.
I have seen that SO many times now, it's worrisome. XD
I'd hate for this to be another waste of great art, so I'm hoping there will be actual progress for JJ. It's great we get at least some progress for Dan tho, that makes me hopeful the story is just generally slow paced (it IS tagged as Slice of Life) and we will infact get a good ending. (  ̄∇ ̄)b
The hate on jaekyung seems so forced