What's Up With Spoiler Chapter Titles?
I see these in so many novels, what's the deal? Why would these authors spoil the punchline of the chapter so often? Is this common in Chinese literature, or is just a web novel thing?
It's particularly bad when the ONLY part of the chapter that has anything to do with the chapter title is in the last paragraph or two. The chapter title will be something like "Tournament of the Ages!", but literally nothing in the chapter has anything to do with this tournament, until the final line when some patriarch says "That's why we're sending you to the Tournament of the Ages!" Why would you even do that? 90% of the time it would be much more appropriate to give the chapter title to the NEXT chapter, because that's the chapter that actually deals with the reveal.
Does anybody have any insight into why this is done? I can't imagine they get many complaints about it in the original Chinese or I'd doubt so many authors would continue to do it, so I imagine this is a cultural thing I just don't understand.
It's particularly bad when the ONLY part of the chapter that has anything to do with the chapter title is in the last paragraph or two. The chapter title will be something like "Tournament of the Ages!", but literally nothing in the chapter has anything to do with this tournament, until the final line when some patriarch says "That's why we're sending you to the Tournament of the Ages!" Why would you even do that? 90% of the time it would be much more appropriate to give the chapter title to the NEXT chapter, because that's the chapter that actually deals with the reveal.
Does anybody have any insight into why this is done? I can't imagine they get many complaints about it in the original Chinese or I'd doubt so many authors would continue to do it, so I imagine this is a cultural thing I just don't understand.
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