A Man of Virtue

Description

What’s it like spending your whole life coming in second place? Ask Nam Jinwoo: he’s been living in the shadow of his rival, Ma Sangtae, his whole life. Now the two are even working in the same office. But passion is a strange beast... It can start as envy or hate and turn into something, well, erotic. Before he knows it, Jinwoo’s head is filled with the most vivid, dirty, and erotic fantasies featuring none other than Sangtae. Unable to control the fantasies, the only way to stop them might be the last thing he wants to do…

**Original Webtoon: **
Lezhin, Bomtoon, MrBlue, Naver Series, BookCube, KakaoPage

Official Translations:
English, Japanese, German, Spanish, Thai

Type

Manhwa

Related Series

N/A

Associated Names

L'homme droit

Man of a Virtue

Người đàn ông đức hạnh

Um Homem de Virtude

Un Hombre Digno

Сама добродетель

นายสุภาพบุรุษ

如幻初醒

幸福企划案

正直的变态

正經的男人

沉默男子

静かな男

정숙한 남자

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Lezhin

Latest Release(s)

c.1 by Lezhin 6 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

102 Chapters + 29 Side Chapters (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

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User Rating

Average: 7.7 / 10.0 (100 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.38 / 10.0

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Last Updated

March 20th, 2025 11:05am PDT - 1 month ago

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Genre

Adult Comedy Fantasy Romance Slice of Life Smut Yaoi
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Recommendations

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Author(s)

GGANG-E

Artist(s)

Wook

Year

2018

Original Publisher

Lezhin

Serialized In (magazine)

Bomtoon (Bomtoon)

Lezhin (Lezhin)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Lezhin US

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #486

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Monthly Pos #1176

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3 Month Pos #2145

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6 Month Pos #2391

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Year Pos #2474

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List Stats

On 275 reading lists

On 243 wish lists

On 208 completed lists

On 13 unfinished lists

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[Sexual assault in BL list]

by coffeedrinker2
2 weeks ago

Rating: N/A

The story hinges on the bottom receiving a curse where if the top has a sexual fantasy about him within 10m of him, he will be forced to vividly imagine it (and feel it?). The top uses this to force the bottom into sexual scenarios/force him to be aroused in public throughout the story.

Ch11: Forced handjob/intercrucial

Ch12: Forced handjob

ch15: forced handjob

ch18-19: forced oral + anal

ch56-57: bottom consents to kinky sex, when he hesitates/doesn’t wanna do what the top is planning, top tells him it’s too late to back out

ch84: Bcus the bottom is forced to vividly see the top’s sexual fantasies, he intentionally gets close to the bottom while they are at a business deal to force him to cum in public, basically

ch85: continued from 84 plus he forces/attempts to force a public handjob on the bottom

ch87: repeat of 84, but during a work meeting. Bottom refers to it as a “one-sided assault”. The top refuses to acknowledge the bottom or even let him touch him so the bottom can’t get any relief

ch88: the top forces the bottom to masturbate with a dildo in the work parking lock in the top’s car, keeps commanding him to do more (bottom only “agrees” to get the top to stop torturing him with sexual fantasies)

ch89: the top forces the bottom to have sex at work, saying “stop” multiple times, “not here” “not like this”. top uses bottom’s arousal as evidence of consent and mocks the bottom for being afraid of being caught having sex at work

[read up to ch90 currently]

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Alright story, odd pacing

by looklookie22
2 months ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

First of all, I read this in the perspective of someone who enjoys dubcon and noncon so my review is pointless if you don't enjoy such topics.

The premise was funny and interesting. I wondered why it reached 80+ chapters if such premise can easily be solved in less than 50. Turns out they were each other's first loves. I was interested with that past but I felt the pacing and flashbacks were too scattered so it felt a bit draggy. I think their first love story was bittersweet but imo really, it should've been paced better. But when they finally got together, there were a lot of sweet moments. The side couple is cute too but it did felt dragging a bit.

It's the kind of story that made me want to click the next chapter on what happens next but also it felt a bit too long sometimes. I did like it though.

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Repulsion

by Relatable
1 year ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

objectively not a story that i would categorize as wholesome or cute, tbh i feel like the romance tag should be off :/, i do think the mc is annoying but even if hes annoying that isn't a excuse for this ml to be this trashy lol.

My feeling of repulsion for this ML is something else.. man got way too many red flags to pass by.

If you just want work sex and bdsm this is your tea i guess.

... Last updated 1 year ago

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I enjoyed it

by koja.kojyte
1 year ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

It's fun story, a lot of comedy, nice character dynamics. At first MC and ML was quite annoying, but will time I understood them better and thier logic. Whole story is very sex heavy, but there a logic on it.

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A huge struggle to finish

by Lelei
1 year ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

Despite dubcon issues, this was over-the-top and comedic enough that I could enjoy it as "not that deep". For the initial 60ch or so, a solid 8 for me, but by the end it's a 5. Not really BDSM--aside from the occasional fantasies with a few panels involving bondage, their sex is just risqué (so much sex in places where realistically they would've been caught, omfg) but they don't have a dom/sub relationship... except like... in the toxic emotionally manipulative way some people delude themselves into thinking is one?

For a brief period their relationship was going well and they were on the same page. But then the comedy started to drop off and Sangtae just got more manipulative and self-absorbed. If you remove the humor from this, it's just a disturbing story about one guy's obsession driving the other to madness while literally every single aspect of his life is ruined.

At first, Sangtae seemed like he was becoming a supportive partner once he felt like his feelings were reciprocated. But we get so many scenes from present and past of Jinwoo unequivocally backing him and being a great partner, with Sangtae being really touched by that... only for him to turn around and sexually torment Jinwoo the second he feels the slightest jealousy or insecurity. 🚩 And he continues to say some heinously degrading shit to him. 🚩🚩 Worst of all, he then manipulates Jinwoo into apologizing to him after Jinwoo gets rightfully upset by it. 🚩🚩🚩

Jinwoo's narration of how he needs to try harder to "prove" his love in order to alleviate Sangtae's insecurities so he won't get emotionally/sexually/verbally abusive is just sad. And all the flashbacks make it clearly that Jinwoo was always bi and always had some degree of feelings for him but every time he tried to bridge the gap between them, it was mostly Sangtae fucking things up. So it's ridiculous that the author insists on depicting him as the pitiful one who's been one-sidedly pining the whole time. Even until the very end, with him unilaterally making decisions about their relationship without even considering Jinwoo's feelings. And somehow the onus is still entirely on Jinwoo to chase after him. Normally by the end of a yaoi manhwa I have whiplash from how much the ML did a 180 but somehow I ended this hating him more than I did at the start.

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Misunderstandings

by MangaGirl1999
1 year ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

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Lots of Misunderstandings and sex at work

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So good

by Fanala
2 years ago

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One of the best manga I have read in a long time.

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Can't find it online free

by Aso
2 years ago

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I am loving this Manhwa but I can't find it online free to read all of the episodes. And I am broke so can't buy all the chapters. Anybody help me😭😭

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It's so cute

by Coco_lan
3 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I hated sangtae so much at the begginning but well... I wasn't convinced on the story bc Jinwoo (the protagonist) was constanly in this situations where he was shamed so much, but at the end everything ends without major bad things. i loved it.

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Spoiler-Included Review

by evehealy
3 years ago

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Full Review With Spoilers

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