Note: The following is a book review by the reader "Wind of the Oath" in the Dust Along the Immortal Road section on Shuopin, provided for Taiwanese readers willing to pay to read Immortal Road. Thanks to "Wind of the Oath." If you would rather I not repost this, please contact me. Thank you! :)
...Previously, registration required a mainland Chinese ID number. That was no longer necessary, and even email verification was not required. You only needed to look at the image and enter the verification code to open an account.
Qidian registration URL: .01.asp
If you used IE to register a new Qidian account and received an "Incorrect verification code" message, you could switch to op_15),
If you could not see the verification-code image, clicking "reload" would display it. Qidian account names seemed to be restricted to "English letters." On your first login, you would be asked for a nickname, which could be in Chinese (you could also install ional).
To become ewpaya_vip_payonline_wb.asp?pt=1, select "Online payment by international credit card." Besides a credit card, you could also use the Visa debit card your bank gave you when you opened an account. (I opened mine at Chinatrust, and all its debit cards were Visa debit cards.)
A Visa debit card had a Visa credit card number on it. The procedure for shopping online was the same as with a Visa credit card: enter the card number, expiration date, and the last three digits on the signature strip. The only difference was that your account balance had to cover however much you wanted to spend. For example, to pay RMB 80 to become a premium VIP, you needed at least NT$350 in your account.
My debit card also had Visa 3D authentication enabled. I had to visit the Chinatrust website