I would never read a ghost story where there is a romantic entanglement between the ghost and another character. Even worse if they "get physical" (I have no idea how that would work, perhaps in a dream state?). Just stay away from that, please.
I would love a naughty ghost, not a bad/scary one, but one that occasionally pulls pranks on the living, or scares teenagers out of having a steamy encounter. Sort of the comic-relief partner of the main character. But with some possibility of it being incredibly scary and doing really bad stuff, if that's its fancy.
And then it would grow by going on some sort of quest and change into a better version of itself, and realising something like 'the more good stuff I do, the closer the door that gets me into the light appears' or some other sort of positive change.
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