
Ofc!
In the next few chapters Jaekyung pretty much lays it on heavy, no beating around the bush tells him that he likes him, has liked him for years and his whole swimming career is because of Jiheon, even plants a peck on him. My sweet poor avoidant baby Jiheon can’t handle this and convinces him that they’ll discuss it after the competition.
Day of the competition Jiheon tries to get out of it telling him he’s just his agent and nothing more and Jaekyung basically says “okay bet” ditches the award ceremony for the competition, doesn’t respond to the company trying to call him. It gets leaked he’s going to retire and netizens start bashing him this upsets Jiheon so much he begs Jaekyung not to quit like this Jaekyung says fine but only if you do everything I want including sleeping with me. They have sex and then have sex a lot, Jaekyung basically uses the sex to “force” his way into his life. I say force but he never crosses boundaries and if he thought Jiheon truly didn’t like him he would definitely back off.
It’s really a lot of Jaekyung chasing him and Jiheon believing he’s not worthy of being loved and having a relationship. It’s a real SLOW burn I’m talking like weeks into them basically being in a relationship, Jiheon is still in denial about his own feelings. I don’t want to reveal too much more in case you want some surprises but it’s really such a sweet story, I loved watching them fall in love.

https://www.novelupdates.com/series/dash/ if you don’t already have an account as soon as you make one and log in the links will pop up. Heads up there’s an official translation coming so the translator probably plans to take it down sometime in June/july
Lmao we’re at about chapter 39-40 in the novel and they have sex in chapter 64.
Non-spoiler spoiler is that the chapters before that are basically Jaekyung trying to provoke Jiheon into realizing his feelings. He’s a green flag bulldozer and Jiheon needs it because he’s very avoidant.