What did IP literature and web novels mean?
IP literature and web novels were both forms of web literature. IP literature referred to literary works based on the Internet protocol (IP). These works were usually protected by copyright and could be freely distributed on the Internet. The representative works of IP literature included "Dream of the Red Chamber,""Water Margins,""Romance of the Three Kingdoms," and other ancient Chinese novels, as well as the popular online dramas "Chu Qiao,""Fu Yao,""Chen Qing Ling," and so on. Online novels were literary works that used the Internet as a medium to spread through online platforms. The specialty of web novels was that they had a wide variety of content, including fantasy, urban, historical, sci-fi, and so on. The representative works of web novels included Battle Through the Heavens, The Selection of the Heavens, and The Expert. IP literature and online novels were both important components of online literature. They had different characteristics and forms of expression, but they were both loved and sought after by the majority of readers.