# Read werewolf novels for $29.99 a week: KissNovel is another new mask for Chinese web-novel going global · Mobile app

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KissNovel - Read Romance · HONG KONG RUIJIU

# Read werewolf novels for $29.99 a week: KissNovel is another new mask for Chinese web-novel going global

**What it is** An app for reading English romance web novels: CEO romance, werewolves, mafia, secret babies, short books of about a dozen chapters each. Several chapters are free; after that you subscribe at $29.99 a week.

**Why it took off** The Books category's Top Grossing chart has a low bar, and expensive weekly subscriptions plus heavy off-store card charges let a small number of paying users push it onto the chart. Users were most likely bought through paid acquisition in the four English-speaking markets of the US, UK, Australia and Canada.

**D** **How you could follow** Don't build the hundredth English werewolf app. If you do go near it, do the parts it hasn't done well: non-English markets, one-time purchase of a single book, in-store payment, one-tap cancellation, and Meta short-video ads driving readers to a web reader.

Grade D: the niche has been a red ocean for eight years, and KissNovel is itself a follower; most new masks that appeared at the same time are bigger. Getting traction depends on a content library and ad budget that small teams can't match. Its only "hard move" is off-store charges that are hard to cancel, which isn't worth copying, and its free-chart rank and daily new ratings are both falling. Few people know about it yet

Data (updated daily) · first launch 2026-07-24 · 11-07 installs 27,370

Android · Total installs worldwide

Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations). Google's detail page only refreshes install counts every other day, so a flat day doesn't mean nobody installed.

Android · Ratings count (cumulative)

Data 2026-10-29 → 2026-11-07 (10 days, 10 observations)

KissNovel is an English romance novel app made by a Hong Kong company. It went live on Google Play at the end of July, got 27k installs in just over three months, and squeezed into #73 on the US Books Top Grossing chart. It has nothing new: the genres, paywall and ad buying are the same playbook Chinese web-novel going global has used for eight years, and its only more aggressive edge is pricing. Below: how it charted, where the money comes from, why it's now sliding, and whether you should follow.

### Four one-star reviews in a single day

On Nov 4, 2026, KissNovel's US App Store page picked up four one-star reviews in a single day, all describing the same problem. One user, Goldielocks18, wrote: "There's no way to cancel the subscription in the app. It says to cancel in Apple subscriptions, but this app isn't listed there at all. Support never replies, I sent three messages, and even after deleting my account it kept charging me. I ended up freezing my card and calling my bank."

Another user, PerryProngs, said it more plainly: "It says you can cancel anytime, but it charges straight to your card, and you can't cancel it in Apple subscriptions the way it claims."

Scrolling further back, a UK user wrote in Oct 28: "Why so expensive? Only two options, $29.99 a week or $149 a year. My other apps cost less than half of this for a year. You can't buy coins on their own."

These reviews sum up KissNovel: readers get hooked on a story, pay for a weekly plan, then find they can't get out.

### What it is

An app for reading English romance web novels. The store page lists 14 subgenres: billionaires, CEOs, werewolves, shapeshifters, vampires, mafia, arranged marriage, secret babies, enemies-to-lovers, second chances, revenge, hidden identities… Reviews name specific titles: "I Accepted My Alpha's Rejection While Carrying His Pup", "Paid to Leave, Pregnant with His Children", "Rejected at 17".

The books aren't long. One Australian user said "the longest book here is 14 chapters", another said "I was interested in a story, and it's very short". A few chapters are free; after that you need a subscription. Daily tasks earn a few rewards, but reviews repeatedly complain "the rewards are too small".

This is the same product GoodNovel, Dreame and WebNovel sell, with the same features: font size, night mode, bookshelf, daily tasks.

### How big it is and how fast it's growing

On Google Play, cumulative installs reached 29 in Oct 21,235, and 6 in Nov 27,370. Over 8 days it added 6,135 installs, an average of 700 more per day. Ratings grew from 768 to 981.

The iOS version came about 7 weeks later, launching in Sep 14. The US store has 457 ratings at 4.2 stars, with 7 added in the last 91 days; UK 63, Australia 46, Canada 30 (App Store, 11-06). Its best ranks were #16 in New Zealand Books Free, #20 in Australia, and #27 in the UK, with #35 in Canada Books Top Grossing.

It charted on Top Grossing not because it sold much, but because the Books category has a low bar. On the US Play Books Top Grossing chart, KissNovel with 27k installs sits alongside GoodNovel (#4) and Dreame (#6), which have tens of millions of installs. Add a price of $29.99 a week, and only a few paying users are enough to push it into the top 80.

But momentum is fading. Over these 9 days, its US Books Free rank fell from 52 to 128, the UK from 35 to 104, Australia from 29 to 61, and Canada from 55 to 138. Daily new ratings dropped steadily from 44 to 12. Only the Top Grossing rank barely moved, staying between #62 and #75 (Google Play, 10-29 to 11-06). New users are shrinking while existing paying users are still being charged, a shape that looks like a campaign that was ramped up and is now being wound down (inference).

### Who's behind it

The developer is Hong Kong Ruijiu Technology Co., Ltd., incorporated in October 2025, with an address in San Po Kong, Kowloon. The same company also runs a voice-room social app, "HiPlay", which launched on iOS in April this year. This is a very common pattern for Chinese teams going global through a Hong Kong entity: start with social, then move into web novels.

A small detail: its privacy policy says "Last updated: May 2024 17", a year and a half before the company was founded. The template was likely carried over from another product, suggesting the team probably built similar products before (inference).

The name is also worth noting. A leading brand in romance web-novel overseas expansion is "Kiss: Read & Write Romance," from Maple Interactive (part of China Literature). 36kr reported it as one of the top 30 Chinese non-game revenue earners going global. On TikTok, the #kissnovel hashtag was originally a promotion tag for Kiss's alt-account network. KissNovel takes both the brand term and the category term. Whether it's riding on Kiss's search traffic on purpose can't be verified.

### Where users come from

It is almost certainly bought, but nothing traceable shows it under its own name.

The Google Ads Transparency Center returns nothing for the company name, product name or domain (11-05); the TikTok European ad library has nothing either (11-05); searching "kissnovel" in the Meta ad library shows 0 active US ads (11-06). Searching "kissnovel" on TikTok turns up mostly 2024 videos from Kiss telling viewers "Download Kiss app, search 6xxxx", plus GoodNovel and others' search-by-book-ID videos, none driving to KissNovel. Over the last 60 days there were zero mentions on X, no media coverage, and no discussion on Reddit.

Yet 700–800 installs a day and simultaneous charting across Play and iOS in four English-speaking markets does not look like organic traffic. The usual approach in this niche is to work through agencies that open accounts, or to use a pile of fake-persona Facebook pages posting "Read the full story here", which lead to a web reader that pushes readers to download the app at the hook, without naming the app in the copy. NovelBar, a similar app, works this way: multiple Facebook pages with purely numeric IDs run ads linking to website.novelbars.com/share/... KissNovel probably does the same (inference, not directly confirmed in an ad library).

### Where the money comes from

There is only one revenue source: subscriptions. iOS reviews say there are two tiers, $29.99 a week and $149 a year; in the UK it's £20 a week. The Play listing's in-app purchase range is $5.99–149.99. One US review mentions buying 1,000 coin packs, so a coin tier may have existed or may exist only in some channels.

The key is the payment method. Many reviews say the subscription doesn't show in Apple's or Google's subscription management: "it charges straight to your card". One US user's advice: "If you subscribe with a credit card, they can't cancel it for you; subscribe through Apple so cancellation is in your hands." Others report being charged exchange-rate fees, a changed billing name, being charged $7 despite cancelling within the 19.99-day trial, and being charged a day early. In other words, it pushed a large share of users into off-store card payments rather than in-store purchases (inferred from reviews).

This is good for revenue: no store commission, and cancellation friction means weekly subscriptions keep billing for several extra weeks. It is bad for reputation: in the US iOS reviews of the past month, nearly all substantive reviews are one-star complaints about not being able to cancel, while five-star reviews are mostly one or two words like "Good", "Nice", "Great app". The three most-upvoted Play reviews (30, 18, 16 people marked "helpful") are all charge complaints too.

### Who it's competing with

This isn't a blue ocean. English-language romance web fiction is one of the most mature categories for Chinese companies going global. It took off around 2018, and today about twenty to thirty of the top 80 spots on the US Google Play Books Top Grossing chart are in this genre (11-06):

| Product | Scale (cumulative Google Play installs) | How KissNovel differs |
|---|---|---|
| Dreame | 41.5M, Books Top Grossing #6 | Since 2018, the benchmark for werewolf themes, with small coin tiers |
| GoodNovel | 38.9M, Books Top Grossing #4 | Large content library and contracted authors; also runs the short drama GoodShort |
| WebNovel (China Literature) | 32.3M, Books Top Grossing #7 | Chinese web-novel translation rights, skews male with xianxia/fantasy |
| Kiss / My Fiction (Maple Interactive) | My Fiction 3.48M | The owner of the "Kiss" name |
| JoyRead, AlphaNovel, MoboReader, My Passion, Galatea and others | 1M–13M | The mid-tier of the same model |
| New masks from 2026: NovelBite, NovelSpark, SnackFic, AmoraReads, PassionNovel | 90k–490k | Almost identical, most bigger than KissNovel |
| Short dramas: ReelShort, GoodShort, DramaBox | 100M+ | The same CEO and werewolf stories adapted into vertical short dramas, taking most of the ad budget |

KissNovel is itself a follower, and not even a big one among followers. New masks enter every month.

### If it were you

**Verdict** : Worth understanding, but don't follow it. It charted on a playbook validated eight years ago and now crowded, plus a charge method that is already drawing widespread bad reviews; its own new installs are falling.

**Who it suits** : teams already doing web novels going global, with an existing content library and reader app, who will set up pages on Meta and buy ads. For them, KissNovel is just another data point: short books (a dozen chapters), only expensive weekly plans, Play before iOS.

**Who it doesn't suit** : solo indie developers and small teams without content. The cost of this business is not in the app but in content and ad buying: without thousands of romance books that hook readers, you have to buy rights, batch-translate, or use AI to write, and the latter two carry quality and platform-review risk. Without a sustained ad budget, you can't stay on the Books charts for even a week.

**How to build it** : If you must play here, don't build the hundredth werewolf romance app. The openings are in what nobody has done yet: first, languages not yet crowded (this type of app has far fewer Spanish, Portuguese, and German versions than English, but the leaders are already moving in). Second, do the "hooked by the story" moment cleanly: one-time purchase of a book, transparent pricing, payment inside the store, one-tap cancellation. Make KissNovel's bad reviews your selling point. This makes money more slowly than it does, but it lasts longer.

**How to acquire users** : There's only one path in this category: Meta and TikTok performance ads, with creatives built from the most intense scene in the story (rejected, betrayed, leaving pregnant), landing in a web reader where you ask for money or send them to the app once they reach the hook. First run a small English-market budget to prove the payback model, then add languages.

**When is the window** : For a copycat there is no window. This category is full. For KissNovel itself, the window depends on when Apple and Google start acting on complaints that subscriptions can't be cancelled.

**What would mean we got it wrong** : ① If in November its free-chart rank stops falling and daily new ratings climb back above 40, it means the growth isn't just buying traffic. The high-price short-book model can sustain itself, and the math is worth redoing. ② If a small team without a large content library gets an AI-written short romance into the Books top 50 in some non-English market, it means the content-cost barrier has been broken and small teams have a shot. ③ Conversely, if within one or two months it is delisted from stores or faces mass refunds, it means off-store billing has been shut down.

[Android store page ↗](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kissnovel.app)

**Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report**

Competitors

| Name | Where | Launched | Scale | How it differs from this one |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GoodNovel (incl. Buenovela, MegaNovel) | Android | 2020 | Play 38.9M installs, US store Books Top Grossing #4 | Leader with a large content library, also doing short dramas; KissNovel is a smaller version of the same model |
| Dreame | Android | 2018 | Play 41.5M installs, US store Books Top Grossing #6 | Veteran werewolf romance benchmark, with a small coin tier; KissNovel only sells high-priced subscriptions |
| WebNovel (China Literature) | Android | 2017 ago | Play 32.3M installs, US store Books Top Grossing #7 | Holds Chinese web novel translation rights, skews male; KissNovel only does female-oriented romance |
| Kiss: Read & Write Romance / My Fiction (Maple Interactive, China Literature) | iOS | About 2021 | My Fiction 3.48M installs; Kiss once hit non-game revenue of 30 strong (36kr) | The real owner of the "Kiss" brand. KissNovel's name is very similar and may be riding brand search (unverified) |
| JoyRead / Readink / AlphaNovel / MoboReader / My Passion / Inkitt Galatea | Android | 2017–2022 | 1M–13M installs, all charting in the top 50 of US store Books Top Grossing | Mid-tier players in the same model, 2 to 3 orders of magnitude larger |
| New fronts from the past 2026 years (NovelBite, NovelSpark, SnackFic, AmoraReads, PassionNovel) | Android | 2025-11 to 2026-05 | 90k–490k installs | Nearly identical to KissNovel, and most are bigger |
| Going-global short drama apps (ReelShort, GoodShort, DramaBox) | Android | From ¥2022 | Hundreds of millions of installs | The same web novel IPs turned into vertical video, pulling most of the ad budget out of this category |
| Wattpad | Android | 2006 | 346M installs | Mainly free UGC, not a paywall model |

Where users come from

- Inference **Performance ads (Meta/TikTok, US, UK, Australia, Canada)** : Both Play and iOS hit the Books charts in four English markets at once, with 700–1,000 installs a day. Rank trends look like decay after ad spend shrinks. But the Google Transparency Center, TikTok's European ad library, and Meta's ad library show no advertiser under its name (googleads/tiktokads libraries 11-05; Meta web 11-06). It may be running through agency accounts or fake-name pages.

- Inference **Riding the "Kiss" brand term and store search** : Maple Interactive's Kiss is a leading romance app, and on TikTok the #kissnovel hashtag was originally Kiss's promo tag. KissNovel's name captures both the brand term and the category term.

- Inference **In-app rewards / prompted ratings** : The Play ratings-to-installs ratio is about 3.6%, which is high. Many 5-star reviews are only one or two words.

- Inference **TikTok content accounts, creators, media, X** : TikHub finds no videos leading to KissNovel. x-radar 0 posts. No media coverage found.

## Why KissNovel - Read Romance (com.kissnovel.app) showed up

> Channel: Google Play (iOS version id 6783672289) | Developer: HONG KONG RUIJIU (Hong Kong Ruijiu Technology Co., Ltd.) | Research date: 2026-11-06

### Bottom line

KissNovel isn't a new species. It's another new front for the proven "Chinese web novels going global" playbook: English romance web novels about CEOs, werewolves, and mafia bosses, with chapter paywalls and a pricey weekly subscription (iOS $29.99/week, $149.99/year), driven by paid acquisition. It charts because of two things: high revenue per paying user, and a low bar to reach the Books Top Grossing chart. Being #73 on the US Books grossing chart takes very little revenue. Nothing about the product stands out. Momentum is fading: over the last 9 days its free-chart rank has slid steadily, daily new ratings fell from 44 to 12, and its grossing rank has barely moved. This looks like a campaign that was spun up and is now being scaled back.

### 1. Current data (googleplay / appstore libraries, 2026-10-29 to 11-06)

- **Play installs** : 21,235(10-29) → 27,370(11-06), +6,135 over 7 days (about +29%), averaging about 770 a day. The store page still shows the "10K+" tier.

- **Play ratings** : 768 → 981, with daily new ratings of 44, 42, 23, 31, 19, 25, 17, 12, trending down. The ratings-to-installs ratio is about 3.6%, high for a reading app. The cause could be daily tasks and rewards in the app, or prompted reviews, **unverified** .

- **Play chart ranks (Books category)** :
    - US free chart 52 → 128, Australia 29 → 61, UK 35 → 104, Canada 55 → 138, all falling.
    - The US grossing chart has held between 62 and 75, with 11-06 at #73. It also ranks 139–147 on the grossing charts for hk, in, sg, tr, vn, sa, th, pl, ae, and id. Those small-market category charts are often the same aggregated chart, so their value as a signal is low.

- **iOS version** : Listed 2026-09-14, about 7 weeks after Play (Play's first recorded date is 2026-07-24). US: 457 ratings, +7 over the last 91 days; UK 63, Australia 46, Canada 30. Best ranks: Books free chart New Zealand 16, Australia 20, UK 27, US 45; Canada Books grossing chart 35. Sensor Tower also shows it on the Canadian iOS Books chart.

- **Developer** : Hong Kong Ruijiu Technology Co., Ltd., incorporated 2025-10-15 (tempb.com company registration). It also runs the voice-room social app "HiPlay - Social Games & Party" (on iOS since 2026-04). A typical case of a Chinese team going global through a Hong Kong entity: started in social, then moved into web novels.

- The **privacy policy** says "Last update: May 17, 2024", a year and a half before the company was incorporated. That suggests a template carried over from another product, and the team probably ran a similar product before (inference).

### 2. Competitors: dozens of players doing the same thing

English-language romance web novel apps are one of the most mature categories for Chinese companies going global. They took off around 2018 years ago, and today the leaders have tens of millions of installs. In the top 80 of the US Play Books grossing chart (2026-11-06), this kind of app takes twenty to thirty spots:

| Product | Platform | Launched | Scale (cumulative global Play installs, googleplay library) | How KissNovel differs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GoodNovel (Xinyue/GoodNovel, also Buenovela, MegaNovel) | Android/iOS | 2020 | 38.9M, US Books grossing #4 | Leader with a large content library and author signings, also running the short drama GoodShort |
| Dreame (Dreame Media, also Innovel, Yugto) | Android/iOS | 2018 | 41.5M, Top Grossing #6 | Veteran, the benchmark for the werewolf genre |
| WebNovel (QiDian Cloudary) | Android/iOS | 2017 ago | 32.3M, Top Grossing #7 | Holds Chinese web novel translation rights, skews male fantasy |
| Kiss: Read & Write Romance / My Fiction (Maple Interactive, China Literature) | Android/iOS | Around 2021 | My Fiction 3.48M; Kiss once hit non-game revenue of 30 strong (36kr) | The name is very close to KissNovel's. This is the real owner of the "Kiss" brand, and on TikTok the #kissnovel hashtag was originally its promo tag |
| JoyRead / Readink / AlphaNovel / MoboReader / Tapon / My Passion / Inkitt Galatea | Android/iOS | 2017–2022 | 1M–13M | Mid-tier players in the same model |
| Wattpad | Android / iOS / web | 2006 | 346M | Mainly free UGC, not a paywall model |
| New entrants from the past 2026 years: NovelBite (490k), NovelSpark (180k), SnackFic (187k), AmoraReads (108k), PassionNovel (94k), Amberia (41k), FlipNovel (33k), VelloraNovel (5 thousand), CrownNovel (9 thousand) | Android | 2025-11 to 2026-07 | See parentheses | Like KissNovel, these are new fronts, and many are bigger than it |
| Short drama apps (ReelShort, GoodShort, DramaBox, etc.) | Android/iOS | From ¥2022 | 100M+ | The same batch of web novel IPs turned into vertical dramas, pulling most of the ad budget (Tencent News 2026-10-16) |

Bottom line: this isn't a blue ocean with no competitors. It's a red ocean, and KissNovel is itself a follower.

### 3. Growth tactic: paid acquisition, but no ads found in its own advertiser accounts

- **Ad libraries** :
    - The Google Ads Transparency Center (googleads library) finds no advertiser under the company name, product name, or domain. Result: no_ads (11-05).
    - TikTok's European ad library (tiktokads library) also returns no_ads (11-05).
    - Meta's ad library, searching "kissnovel" in the US, shows 0 active ads (Jina scrape, 11-06).
    - None of this proves it isn't buying traffic. The usual approach in this category is to open accounts through agencies, or to use fake-name Facebook pages posting "Read the full story here" creatives that land in a web reader and then lead to the app, with no app name in the copy. For example, NovelBar runs website.novelbars.com/share/... ads from several numeric-ID pages; see facebook.com/61587800608979 and others in the Jina search results.

- **TikTok content accounts** : Searching "kissnovel" returns videos from Kiss (Maple Interactive) sub-account networks posting "Download Kiss app Search 6xxxx" over the past 2024 years, plus "book ID" referral videos from GoodNovel, Novel Master, and NovelShort. **No videos leading to KissNovel were found** .

- **X / media / Reddit** : x-radar shows 60 posts over the last 0 days. No media coverage found, and no Reddit threads.

- **Store side** :
    - The name "KissNovel" combines the brand term "Kiss" and the category term "novel", so it may be picking up Kiss brand search traffic, **unverified** .
    - The iOS "Customers also bought" section lists similar apps like Readly, TaleWave and Romanfic, which suggests it overlaps with the same romance readers (Apple page).

- **Inference** : 700–1,000 installs a day, charting on both iOS and Play at once, with ranks sliding the way they do after paid spend is cut back. The most likely explanation is small-budget performance ads (Meta/TikTok) in the four English-speaking markets of the US, UK, Australia and Canada, paid back by weekly subscriptions. **Not directly confirmed in the ad libraries** .

### 4. Why users pay

- The content runs on proven "power fantasy" formulas: domineering CEOs, contract marriages, "pregnant and running", revenge, werewolves. The store description lists 14 sub-genres, exactly like GoodNovel and Dreame.

- Monetization is aggressive:
    - iOS reviews say there are only two tiers, $29.99/week and $149/year, and "you can't buy coins individually"; in the UK it's £20/week. Play in-app purchases range from $5.99 to $149.99.
    - Several negative reviews say the subscription doesn't show up in Apple/Google subscription management, can't be cancelled, emails go unanswered, and the charge name was changed (Play reviews from Luna Bunnii 9-15, Carrie Woodforde 10-18, Charlotte Meyer 10-16; US iOS reviews 10-11 through 11-01). This is likely "fake subscriptions" built on non-renewing subscriptions or off-store payments; the category draws similar complaints on Reddit (My Passion, Novelove, Webnovel).
    - This pricing lets a very small number of paying users push it to #73 on the Books Top Grossing chart.

- Retention: most 5-star reviews are one or two words ("Good", "Great books", "Amazing books"), empty of substance, as if prompted by a reward. The reviews with real content are almost all 1-star billing complaints.

### 5. Differentiation

**Can't tell** . The features (font size, night mode, bookshelf, daily task rewards), genres and paywall are identical to GoodNovel and Dreame. The only thing that counts as "different" is harsher pricing (a high-priced weekly subscription, no small coin tier) and a brand name close to Kiss. It works not on differentiation but because the model itself pays back, plus the low bar to reach the Books chart.

### 6. How many people have seen it

Few people know about it yet: no media coverage, 0 posts on X, no disclosed revenue, and nobody is publicly copying it. But its category is a red ocean that has been discussed to death (36kr, Tencent News and DataEye have all written about web novel and short drama overseas paid acquisition), and new entrants show up every month.

### 7. What to borrow

- The minimum viable version of overseas web novels: a Hong Kong entity, a list of genres (CEO romance, werewolves, mafia), an off-the-shelf reader plus paywall, small-budget paid acquisition in the four English markets of the US, UK, Australia and Canada, and a high-priced weekly subscription to pay it back. In the Books category, you don't need much revenue to reach the top 100 grossing.

- Launch on Play first, then iOS about 7 weeks later, using Play to test creatives and pricing.

- The risks are also worth learning from: subscriptions that can't be cancelled bring bad reviews and refunds, and sooner or later that attracts platform review. That is the ceiling of this model.

### 8. Uncertain

- Actual channels and spend (couldn't find the ads in any account I can access).

- Content source: self-signed authors, purchased rights, or AI generation/bulk translation.

- Whether the high rating rate reflects prompted five-star reviews.

- Exactly which billing method the "fake subscription" uses.

- Whether it is connected to a major web novel publisher (the templated privacy policy hints the team has prior projects).

### Sources

- googleplay library app_profile / app_day / chart_rank / app (2026-10-29 to 11-06)

- appstore library app_profile (11-06); iTunes lookup API; iTunes review RSS (us/gb/au)

- Google Play store page play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kissnovel.app (Jina, 11-06)

- googleads library watch/adv_map; tiktokads library adv_map; metaads library advertiser/ad; Meta Ad Library web page (Jina, 11-06)

- tempb.com Hong Kong company registration for Ruijiu Technology; apps.apple.com developer page id1874831939

- osscdn.kissnovel.com/privacy.html

- TikHub TikTok search for "kissnovel" and "kiss novel app"; x-radar search

- 36kr, "Short dramas eat meat, web novels drink soup: Reelshort brings Kiss into non-game revenue 30 strong"; Tencent News 2026-10-16 "Overseas short drama apps, throwing money and no one hears a sound anymore?"

This article was written by AI from public data and the data we collect daily. Numbers are sourced, and inferences are labeled.