Hello, lovelies! After much sighing over how much of a pain it is to navigate jjwxc, I very belatedly realized that hey, it would be super easy to create a tutorial for the novel-purchasing (and receipt-acquiring) process, for anyone who’s also frustrated by the site (very understandable) and for me in a month when I forget how this all works. I know a number of people are trying to figure out how to set up their 2ha purchases and receipts right now, and this should be able to get you where you need to be.
This doesn’t cover the steps of how to create an account. I don’t remember how I did that, and other tutorials exist. Here is a short youtube video, and here is a twitter thread. The translate function on your phone/browser is your friend, but it will also break some of the formatting on the header bar and menu bars, and I have some Opinions about how user-friendly jjwxc is in general, but here we are. This will be USA-focused, especially when it comes to currency, but I’m hoping that things aren’t too-too different in other countries.
(I am posting the whole process, so it’s repeatable for other novels, but here’s a direct link to the 2ha jjwxc page)
So, once you have an account, and once you may or may not have any money on it, first of all, I’ll need you to go to the jjwxc.net homepage. You may notice that for some reason, there is no search bar. This bothers me, but I have no power to fix it. What you want to do instead, is go into those arbitrary novel listings and just... click one. Any one.
And now, a search bar has magically appeared
However, before you search ‘husky’ or ‘erha’ or anything, hold on. Sometimes the search bar can handle english terms, sometimes it can’t, and I can’t figure out any consistency. The safest way to proceed is to go to a book’s novelupdates page and directly copy the characters from there.
For 2ha:
二哈
When you go back to jjwxc and put that in, it should autocomplete for you. If the autocomplete lags, the book should be the first search result.
And again, the direct link to the page:
http://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=3192481
Now, once you’re on the novel’s jjwxc page, I’m going to need you to CHECK the description. Make sure you can identify a character name, or that the chapter numbers match up or something before you go too far. The auto-translate can be squirrely, especially for something as vague as a novel summary. If you search ‘husky’ there are other novels with ‘husky’ in the name, and it’s real easy to stumble onto the wrong page. From MTL, I know that ‘mo ran’ gets translated as ‘ink burning’, or Chu Wanning is mentioned directly, and as I scroll down there are 350 chapters, so I’m looking good!
(also, from this point, I’m going to be showing the chapters for Thousand Autumns/Qian Qiu, since I already bought erha earlier today, but still need to buy this novel)
So, scroll part of the way down the chapter list. You’re looking for the spot where chapters start getting marked as VIP chapters. Click any one of them, it doesn’t matter.
This will bring you to a list of all the vip chapters. You don’t want to select all of them by hand. That’s gonna suck. Fortunately, the top left button gives you a quick ‘select all’
Now, this is going to give you a pop-up message that your browser’s auto-translate probably WON’T capture. But it’s just confirming that you really do want to select all of the chapters.
All the chapters should be selected!! Now, scroll down to the very bottom of the page. If you have site currency, you’re good to go. But let’s pretend you don’t. If you don’t have site currency, hit ‘click to recharge’, the third button from the left.
This is the part where earlier I got very frustrated and had to take a break, haha. Now, if you happen to have AliPay set up, great! I theoretically have an account (because of jjwxc), but when I tried to log on, it wouldn’t take, for some reason. So I cooked dinner and then came back and tried again. This is a spot where auto-translate breaks the site’s formatting in an important way (at least in my browser). On the left, you’ll see a column of buttons. The lowest one, where the text spills out, says ‘international credit card recharge’
That’s where they hid paypal
(also, please note the price tiers on this page. those 100 yuan/10,000 coin and 200 yuan/20,000 coin tiers are the only ones that are relevant to paypal, for some reason. In USD, as of today, that’s about $17 and $34. Erha cost me 5800 coins, and most novels cost considerably less)
Once you click that secret paypal button, it will bring you to a much more familiar looking interface. For some reason, they only offer two tiers instead of all the ones they offer through alipay, but they aren’t BAD tiers to be hitting. I didn’t have enough coins earlier to purchase erha, and recharged $34, and I’ve bought four books and still have like half my money left. The $17 tier will give you enough for erha and another one or two shorter books. But all you have to do here is select how much you want to pay and do the usual paypal thing.
Now, go back to the novel page. Click a vip chapter and select all and confirm you want to select all and scroll to the bottom. Now you should be able to click purchase.
This will give you the options to read now, or read later. If you’re a monolingual english-speaking sucker like me, that doesn’t matter.
Now, if you’re looking to get access to the fast releases of new erha chapters, you also need to provide a receipt. This is also cunningly hidden, because jjwxc doesn’t care about you, a poor english-speaking sap trying to use a chinese website. You won’t be able to find a purchase confirmation code directly from your purchased chapters
Go back to the jjwxc.net homepage. With auto-translate enabled, you’re going to be looking for a drop-down menu labeled ‘accounting’ and you want to click ‘expenses record’
This will open a page that looks completely unrelated to what you were hoping for, and you may try clicking ‘expenses record’ two or three more times trying to get the screencaps you need for a jjwxc guide, hypothetically speaking. But scroll down the page past all those long announcements.
Down here, you’ll see the book purchases you’ve made. By default, it shows the last month of expenditures, but if you wanted to display older ones (like if you purchased erha in the past), you can use the drop down menu to display other time periods. Here, you can see that I started my evening with erha, and have been catching up on other things on my to-buy list, including thousand autumns, which I bought as I was making this guide. I’m probably gonna go back to buy peerless next. The ‘transaction number’ is what the erha translators want screencapped for access to the fast chapters, which is why I’ve blanked them out of my personal screencap :p
So hopefully that helps! If I’ve left out anything egregious, please feel free to comment, and I’ll try to edit and clarify. I highkey hate the jjwxc interface, so I am happy to help people dodge some of the frustration of figuring it out, and I’m definitely a big fan of helping people figure out how to support their favorite authors more easily
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