Exlor Exlor, your story "The Mech Touch" is a great read, I wish you all the success with it. You have a lot of talent and webnovel seems to be a great platform to practice your craft. While money is the short term goal, readership and exposure might be more important to a writer.
I didn't start my career at the top of the corporate ladder, few if any do. The secret to success is still one part luck and the rest is perseverance. I also believe people make their own luck. While one ticket can win you a lottery, and having all the tickets but one can still loose you the lottery, if you never play, you never win.
I can surmise that you are at the start of a bright future. I have hired and training many fine individuals, but the ones that succeed have talent, and drive that distinguish themselves from the pack. Webnovel may not pay well, I don't even know if they have exclusivity rights that prevent the work you are doing from being published on different sights and media. Your story is your intellectual property, and as an author, readership recognition is how you climb the corporate ladder in literature. We know the most prolific writers of history through their prolific works.
I found webnovel by reading a book on Amazon, I wanted to read more of the story and the book linked to more sites at the end. Webnovel is a tool to introduce yourself to the world. Make your own luck, buy as many lottery tickets by exposing your story to as many readers as possible. With so many authors in the world, you need to distinguish yourself. Publish everywhere and to everyone would be my advice. Just as information storage evolved from punch cards, tape drives, floppy discs, cd's and thumb drives, nobody should think that how things are now will be the way things will be.
I hope you and other authors continue to enjoy the work you do. Why is there the phrase 'starving artist' if making money is the goal? Maybe making money is something that happens by when you strive to succeed.