Hi guys. As some of you may know by now, our beloved Chinese Overlords, Qidian International, has released its own translations of Cultivation Chat Group yesterday. This comes as a surprise for me as much as for any of you, as I had no inkling this would happen frankly. However, I have seen some people confused about what’s happened all this while, as I haven’t said much regarding what happened between me, QI, and GT. So, I’ll clarify what has happened and what I know.

I picked up CCG in June, as soon as the previous TLs dropped it. Within one week, I got posts on my website from what were obviously QI puppet accounts saying QI was picking it up soon and threatening jail time for me. I was honestly pretty scared and this close to dropping CCG. Bear in mind that at this point it was already confirmed that WW and QI would be settling their differences in court.

Then, my knight in shining armour, GGP, coincidentally immediately after appeared, offering salvation. He offered help for me to become the official translator for CCG, getting rid of legal problems, by joining Gravity Tales. I trusted him because he was an old figure in the community at this point. After a month of discussion, I almost joined, coming close to signing the contract, as he played on my trust of him and fear of QI. I have the contract in my possession already actually. Then, the sellout was revealed. Taking another look at the contract, I realised how bad it really was. There were at least six clauses that screwed me over, allowing GT to get out of paying me and the like. You know GGP said in his official response, where he acted as if he apologetic about lying to the community, that translators in GT get to keep their translation rights? Yeah, that was a lie. Also, the contract also offers a base pay of $20, half of QI. GGP also neglected to mention to me during discussions that the contract has a clause where if I start Patreon advance chapters without signing ANOTHER contract with them, they can sue me, thus setting me up to get sued by them. There’s still MORE clauses like that in that slave contract. Wow, imagine how I felt. A guy I had put my trust in had actually made me close to signing a contract that underpays me, takes my rights, and sets me up to be sued. Beautiful memories. After that GGP revelation, I immediately declined to join GT. Soon after, QI attempted to recruit me as well to translate CCG. Then, GGP emailed again and shamelessly asked me what was wrong with the contract… Once bitten, twice shy, so of course I wouldn’t join or trust them anymore.

That was two months ago or so. I was never contacted again, so I thought things had come to a close. Until yesterday, when QI decided to release their own translations of CCG, and poach the project. Much more actually happened, but detailing it all would take too long. You can ask me anything about what happened actually, and this time round I’ll try to clear things up as much as possible, and not keep you all in the dark. You can ask on reddit, NUF, or here.

What will happen going forward? I’m still undecided, as as far as I can tell of NU add releases policy, it will most likely add the QI translations when it reaches 50 releases, whether there’s already an active translator or not. QI will overtake me, as it released just one chapter ahead of me. So I’m currently still trying to figure out whether to continue or stop as eventually QI will have its releases on NU as well, and well, I’m not really sure I’m excited about having the stress of trying to compete for over 1000 chapters. However, at the very least, I’ll find a good stopping point, like the end of an arc or something.

However, I would like to thank those who showed me their support over this like these.

I’m also sorry that your comments in support got deleted by QI on their site. But I’ve seen them, and I’m still really thankful. Thanks to everyone who was supportive over this.

TLDR: Still undecided on what happens next, but just releasing this to clear up things so that you all won’t be in the dark anymore.

Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/noveltranslations/comments/77rtft/qis_poaching_of_ccg_and_what_happened_between_me/

NUF thread: http://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/wei-translations-view-on-ccg-gt-and-the-whole-drama-opinions.50357/

NUF Other thread: http://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/qi-poaching-ccg.50326/