If you suggest unlock token, then it will be not fair for a novel with short chapter like Hidden Marriage. Each chapter for premium only need 3 to 4 SS. Maybe like other novel, example: RTW, needs more than 15 SS for each chapter.
So I think the present sistem is quite fair for all novel in here since they price it 1 SS for each 200 words.

    I would love something like this, I was just calculating how much it would cost me to catch up to the latest chapter of my novels, and for some of them I would need to pay up to $20 dollars per story, that's more expensive than complete books! And that's only to catch up! As you said, we would need to keep paying to keep reading the newest chapter, or wait 2-3 months for the free chapters to catch up.

    Thanis well, you can wait if don't want to pay 😊😊😊
    I can wait till premium chapter unlocked. They still give you a free chapter everyday. What you need is time.
    Other than read novel, don't you have a work?

        oh? 200 characters are​ 1 spirit stone? u should read ancient godly monarch each chapter is 10-14 spirit stones to unlock, doesnt feel like 200 characters, and im too lazy to check, im js.

          Thousand_Books yes I know. If you're a student, then focus on your study. Don't just read novel. While you still young, work hard young lad. Your future depending on how you planned.

              DoaOfOne well you can't blame it if each chapter had 2000 to 2800 word. Didn't you get 17 to 22 SS everyday? You can unlock each day or read other novel. It's not like qidian only have 1 book, true?

                  Knew it would be like this as soon as QI made their announcement on r/noveltranslations. "For the readers" OMEGALUL

                  Volko098 at least they keep updating rather than dropping it ... It's not bad. Look other novel that being drop more than a few months. Premium make tranlator keeping update, so waiting 2 or 3 years is normal. Didn't the writer also need a few years to finish 1 novel? 😉

                      Ventus_Hikari no problems for Premium, just not at these crazy prices. I can buy, not just read, actually BUY many many books for the price of a single novel in premium here. So no ... qidian lost a reader .... I mean, even spending 5$/month to get 2-5 chapters in advance every day is a much better deal than this.

                          Thanis for one novel or all of them ? If it's for all of them then it's a bad deal for them

                              It costs about 20c/chapter if you buy $10 worth of Spirit Stones(500, not including bonus). For Immortal Mortal i'm on chapter 776(hit the paywall around 10-15 chapters ago), and there are 156 to catch up on. If each chapter is 20 cents, that'd be 31.2$ if I want to catch up ._.

                              $10/500 = .02 US dollars
                              if it costs around 10 spirit stones per chapter, then .02 times 10 = .20
                              20 cents times 156 chapters = 31.20$

                              unfortunately that's not a price i'm willing to pay, if they were willing to change it to a subscription based service, maybe i'd be willing to pay $25 max per month to read 4-5 novels.

                              btw can't use * in post, might want to fix that.

                                Dropped so many novels coz i csnt afford SS. But yeah if theygive more options to earn it itll be nice. :)
                                Add more ads to watch 😂😂

                                killed me SSton for Heavens Path :( just changed from 6 to 12 stones roughly T.T but then again i should have seen this pay thing coming

                                  Ventus_Hikari Are you a Qidian shill? You seem to defend them at every turn, i've never seen a consumer defend a company providing a ton less content.

                                  The fact is, Chinese novels are word bloats, as they intend, they charge per word which encourages long bloated descriptions aswell as info-dumps, the fact is this sort of method doesn't work in the west, could you imagine if game of thrones got the same plot progression in 20 books as they do currently in 5? Do you think people would still pay for them?

                                    Use 1 account / book so you can definitly catch up. Well at least not for the 17ss-20ss/chap.

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