Qutoutiao was a news and information application that mainly provided news, entertainment, sports, and other content. Reading novels was a function of the user on Qutou. Therefore, whether Qutou would charge for reading novels depended on the charging mode of the specific novel. Some novels were free while others required users to pay a certain fee to read. In addition, Qutoutiao might also provide a paid reading option for users to purchase chapters or the full version of the novel. Therefore, the user needed to check the charging policy of the interesting headlines and the charging mode of the novels they read in order to decide whether to read the novels on the interesting headlines and pay the corresponding fees.