Hi! I'm interested in writing a story with crossworld and time travel(ish) themes. I'm Chinese, but I wasn't raised in China. I wasn't in touch with my culture for most of my childhood, and I only got into Asian entertainment (dramas / anime / Kpop / etc ) very recently. Growing up, I didn't see much of myself in books and movies. A few years ago, I thought I'd take the Reverse Sucked In fanfiction trope (your favourite character gets sucked out of their book / movie and lands in our world) and see if I could write an original story with it. And hey. I might as well write about Chinese characters since I myself am Chinese, because why not?
The premise of my story: A bookworm accidentally pulls her favourite character from his book—she manages to put him back, but they end up traveling back and forth between their worlds. Drama, romance and hilarity ensue.
My main issue is that the book this character got pulled from is a fictional version of ancient China. This isn't technically a time travel story, I guess, but I just found out that stories like these are (were?) actually quite popular on the Chinese drama scene. That's where you guys come in. My questions: what do most Chinese cros world / time travel dramas have in common?
Which tropes do you guys like / dislike?
Are there other stories similar to mine?
TL;DR: I'm an aspiring author trying to write a story set in China. The story has time travel themes; are there any Chinese crossword / time travel drama tropes that I should know about?