First of all, this was a new Qidian event. Its original intention was that readers could see the bonus chapter by voting with monthly tickets.
However, since both the event and the author were new, and the event page provided no reminders or explanations, I thought it was a cumulative voting event—that the bonus chapter would be sent to readers who had cast a total of three monthly tickets.
But that was not the case. The votes had to be cast after the bonus chapter was released, through the designated button on the designated page. Voting anywhere else did not count, and neither did voting outside after sending a reward.
I was seriously about to suffocate.
Readers had reported all sorts of issues: voting right at the deadline and not being able to see it, voting on the event page and not being able to see it, voting normally and not being able to see it, voting after sending a reward and not being able to see it, voting from the rewarded work page and not being able to see it...
Because this bonus chapter was not uploaded through Author Assistant, but through the Qidian app. After it passed review, the author no longer had editing permissions. I could not even fix typos, delete it, or upload it again.
I would like to give an enormous thank-you to the readers who successfully voted and got to see it. You were not only wealthy, but also lucky. At least a dozen unlucky people spent the whole night voting in all sorts of ways, only to find they still could not see it...
I spent the entire night explaining, handling things, and trying different solutions without sleeping.
Some people said the author had gotten full of herself. But if you look through