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Alessandro It's because you read ahead?
Novelupdates, a third-party site, keeps track of all the free chapters.
For instance, Chapter 713 will be unlocked for free in a few hours.
Introducing the Premium program BETA, giving you advanced chapters!
CKtalon probably, then.... the last chapter I read was c716 and that was a few days ago
ChosenEternally Well yes, but they have more access to the coming chapters of the novels.
This is for me the reason premium chapters are not worth buying spirit stones for. If I spend money to read ahead for an important fight or something else cool, I'll either have to keep spending money to keep up or wait for a long time for free chapters catch up again with where I was.
okay now I get it
hmm 
Woah This is still alive? haha
Hope there will be no debate again -_-
WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL after a while is qidian international going to Become like the chinese qidian where for a lot of novels there's only like 100 free chapters, while for the rest you have to pay.
An epup for fiction story professional proofread and edited doesn’t even cost so much, now -/+$35 for translation by hobbyist turn semi pro and edited by who knows ..... I spend around $400 yearly to feed my love 
of reading but I buy books and epubs alike for under $20 some short some long but all finished someone tell me why should I pay so much Qidian novels , I need justification !
Take a look at super gene. No more ads but it needs 6 spirit stones to unlock chapters.
In its current form this is a rip-off. This should be a subscription model. $10 a month would still generate a lot of money.
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how many days do we have to wait to automatically unlock the chapter with beta?im out of stones.dont have visa as well.man too unlucky me..
we cant read this unlock chapter without SS anymore?
İs there any other payment methods or only paypal? İ'm asking this cause in my country paypal doesnt work.
how do I get premium exactly
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laurels All you got to do is buy SS; although I'm not to sure how much you got to pay for it to work.
That whole system is a shot in the knee....sorry bro's and sis', guess you have to quit being an adventurer..
i KNOW translating is a very time consuming hobby and is a lot of work too..with those 2 points you have a very good reason to milk some money for premium chapter..but you have also check if youre still able to meet your schedule...if youre not able to, change it. Why am i saying that? Check TSS and LOHP for example..Both novel have Premium chapters...TSS promises 19 ch/w..but in the last few days we didnt even get 1 chapter for free..thats not a Premium system, thats buying a book. Dont say its not like that. LOHP promises 17 ch/w..in the last 7 days we got 7 chapter...guess i dont have to repeat what i wrote up there..
To make it clear. Its good that you want to earn some money and its good that you want to pay the translators and its also good that you are bringing the asian culture to the west (well englilsh tho), BUT at the very very least you have to keep your promises. If you keep up the schedules, people will be pleased and pay..if you dont..well..people will still pay but the mood is different...if people buy something with sour mood, they will be more reluctant to do that again..thats common sense
Well they should've just released the chapters like they normally did in the past. Just add more extra chapters in the premium category for buying with spirit stones. That way free readers and premium readers will both be happy and there will be no more complaints i guess.
There are too many novels to read and sooooo less spirit stones.
Ah! please don't bite me....... just a random person passing by