Recommendations Story with a male outside of the MC with talent and a brain

I'm just got through 500 chaps of Keyboard Immortal(don't ask me how). I realized that the story literally only had 1 maybe 2 redeeming male characters. I didn't mind the harem initially but it went to infinity. I want a story with strong non romantic male to male relationships that still has male to female romance preferably. I think Monarch of Evernight had this but the MC has a mental illness imo so I could not persist. Also I hate his best friend.

 

I am the Monarch

 

Regressor Instruction Manual
Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint - no romance tho
God of Tennis

 

Try to read Paragon of Sin, it's not exactly what you're looking for, but I guarantee you'll like it. especially if you reach the latest chapter.

Btw, Monster Paradise is what are you looking for

 

Is this the same as the korean webtoon, the story of a low ranking soldier becoming a monarch?

 

Yes and no, he is reborn so then works hard to become a monarch through spear arts and tactics

 

Nope, that novel hasn't been adapted to manhwa, that manhwa just seems similar at a glimpse maybe because of the basic premise (second chance + low-ranking soldier + aiming to be a monarch)