Hmm. I don’t know. Did the webtoon artist/s fail to depict YJH’s emotional devastation as strongly as in the novel, or did readers exaggerate his feelings of devastation in their imagination based on their own interpretation of the scene?
If they intended to make this less ~gay~, I feel like the choice was made in consideration with the large demographic that the manhwa caters to, which would include a lot of straight and homophobic readers.