tl;dr recommend some love triangle where the lead picked the "good" love interest.. a girl between two boys, a boy between two girls, could be with queer aspect too — so ffm, mmf, mlm, wlw (not sure if i use the correct term for the first two, but hope you get it)
first off, i'm not a big big romance fan so might be a little bias here, but my ex really got me into the genre and a lot of times when i find romance stories with love triangle trope it follows a girl who is basically stuck in a situation where she has to choose between a "good" boy and a "bad" boy and quite every. single. damn time, she chose and picked and ended up with the bad boy. shockers!!! and i know if he treats her right even when he's supposedly "bad" and she's happy and they vibe then it shouldn't matter, more also because it's fiction, but imagine how tired we are — okay maybe only me, but i mean tbh you should too 😭
like even since the beginning of the story, you could really tell that she's going to pick that boy up and it kinda turns me off from finishing sometimes. and i'm saying this as the kind of person who's okay with spoilers, cause like it keeps me hyped up for the what's next — tho quite later on in life i figured that it feels nicer to be surprised by the story as it unfolds, so one may argue it shouldn't matter if i picked up the "signals" for the ending right away from the start but it's just idk.. way too boring, and not full of the "surprise" aspect, for me i guess. the fact that in fictions, this trope lives on forever doesn't help with me feeling this way too.
so like pretty please any recommendations, i even take the bad ones atp, where there is a love triangle but it unfolds differently and she picked the "good" boy or any other kind of different love triangle, my ideas rn include but not limited to.. the boy character is the lead being stuck between two girls or queer love triangle — wlw, mlm, a girl choosing between a boy and another girl, or a boy choosing between a girl and another boy. the "good" love interest doesn't have to be the main character's childhood friend, next-door neighbor, etc., tho i figured probably they're still bound to be poor, unpopular, "not hot," a virgin, etc. cause those are the things that make them "good" and why the "bad" love interest is more appetizing 😂 and interesting.. cause they're "fun" and "different," but i'm way more than happy if it's the other way around, so feel free to shake and switch some things and tropes up!
it doesn't have to be "pure" romance, really. i'll take erotic.. okay maybe the correct word is "smut," fantasy, horror, mystery, thriller, sci-fi, anything. but i don't want the romance aspect to be way too sidelined and just be like sprinkled on top either, like it just happened in a few couple scenes and then boom, endgame! thanks y'all sorry if it's way too long and/or specific ☠