After I Wrote an AI Subscription Service Test Series, Two Providers Reached Out: On Backlinks, Sponsored Posts, and Honest Records

I never expected that my ongoing record of subscribing to ChatGPT Plus would lead to this kind of follow-up.

Originally, I just wanted to document my real experience subscribing to ChatGPT Plus from mainland China.

From WildCard, OneKey, Dupay, and Wise, to actually using BeWild / WildAI later on, and then dealing with auto-renewals, refunds, re-subscriptions, and subscription fixes—I basically recorded whatever I encountered.

As I kept writing, it evolved beyond a simple “how to subscribe to ChatGPT Plus” article into a continuously updated series.

Now, I am preparing to expand the original:

BeWild Service Hands-On Review Series

officially into:

AI Subscription Services: Hands-On Reviews & Observations

English title:

AI Subscription Services: Hands-On Reviews & Observations

This way, going forward, I can include not only ChatGPT Plus but also Claude Code and other AI products’ subscriptions, renewals, payments, refunds, and service provider experiences in this series.

There are already multiple articles in this series.

Some cover successful subscriptions, while others cover failed auto-renewals; some involve refunds, others re-subscriptions; some detail subscription fixes, and others list third-party service quotes.

I have always treated them as my own usage logs.

It wasn’t until recently that I realized: these articles have started to have an impact I hadn’t anticipated.

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The first service provider to reach out to me: LiuNeng AI

On October 1, 2026, I received an email from the operators of LiuNeng AI.

At the beginning of the email, they stated directly that they had found me because of the ChatGPT Plus subscription comparison article I had written previously.

They hoped that if I continued to update similar subscription comparisons in the future, I could consider LiuNeng AI as a candidate that hasn’t been tested yet.

One thing that left a deep impression on me was that they proactively specified:

• No purchase required beforehand;
• No request for a positive review;
• They did not want me to treat this self-recommendation as an endorsement;
• No fees, gifts, or commission promises.

So at the time, I simply took it as a service provider proactively pitching themselves.

Since I hadn’t actually used LiuNeng AI myself, I couldn’t evaluate whether it was good or bad based solely on an email.

I set the matter aside for the time being.

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Two weeks later, another service provider found me

On October 14, I found another similar email.

This time, the one contacting me was Xiaoxiao AI.

The email subject was:

Providing you with processing and renewal reference materials to supplement your ChatGPT Plus hands-on review

They also explicitly mentioned seeing my Plus subscription article comparing WildCard, OneKey, Dupay, Wise, and BeWild.

The first half of the email expressed their hope to supplement the article with their own quotes, billing cycles, automatic deductions, post-purchase verification, and after-sales information.

However, at the very end of the email, they very directly stated another purpose:

They hoped my website could provide them with a backlink.

If possible, publishing a new sponsored post would also work.

Upon reading this, I was essentially certain:

I will not directly write a promotional sponsored post for a service I have not used myself.

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Why I didn’t accept the sponsored post

I should probably clarify something first here.

I don’t believe that blogs can never be commercialized.

My own blog runs Google ads.

Although the income isn’t high, it does help subsidize some server costs.

If a suitable commercial partnership comes along in the future, I won’t reject it outright simply because it’s a “commercial partnership.”

The real issue is this:

If I haven’t actually used a product or service myself, it’s very hard for me to write it up as an “authentic experience article.”

Many of my blog posts over the years haven’t been the result of picking a topic first and then gathering materials to piece an article together.

More often, it goes like this:

The server has an issue, I fix it, and then I write a post.

I hit a snag with some software, I fix it, and then I write a post.

Bank cards, PayPal, ChatGPT Plus, Cloudflare, WordPress, Linux… I run into a problem, tinker with it, and then document the whole process.

So later, I asked them via WeChat:

Did you reach out to me because you saw the WildAI-related articles I wrote previously?

They confirmed:

It was indeed because I saw one of your blog posts.

They even directly sent a photo of my blog post.

This gave me a rather direct realization for the first time:

The things I’ve been writing purely as personal records were actually being found by people through search.

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They offered to provide one month of Plus, but I don’t need it right now

During our chat, I also shared my thoughts with them.

My blog primarily documents my own real usage experiences, so it’s not appropriate to write a service recommendation post for something I haven’t actually used yet.

They subsequently replied:

If there is an opportunity to collaborate, we are willing to provide a one-month Plus payment for your official GPT account.

There is nothing wrong with this proposal itself.

If I happened to be looking for a new ChatGPT Plus top-up channel, this could indeed serve as an opportunity for a hands-on experience.

However, that wasn’t my situation.

The three-month WildAI Plus subscription I am currently using hasn’t expired yet.

In other words, I don’t currently have an actual need to find a new proxy service provider just to use ChatGPT Plus normally.

If I were to deliberately interrupt the service I’m currently using just to switch to another one for testing—simply because someone offered a free month of Plus—I feel it would somewhat defeat the original purpose of “naturally documenting real experiences.”

Therefore, I did not pursue this free Plus offer.

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Later it occurred to me: what’s truly worth documenting might not be the product, but this experience itself

However, after chatting up to this point, I suddenly realized:

Although I can’t write a “hands-on experience with Xiaoxiao AI” right now, the incident itself is something I personally experienced.

Moreover, combined with the previous email from LiuNeng AI proactively contacting me, this was no longer a completely isolated event.

So I told them:

I might write a blog post about this contact process itself.

It would mainly document:

• How I was found by service providers;
• What kind of collaboration they proposed;
• Why I didn’t accept the sponsored post directly;
• My own thoughts on the boundary between commercial partnerships and authentic experience content.

I also made it clear that the article would be based on my actual experience and honest judgment, and would not be written as a promotional sponsored post.

Their response was very friendly:

Willingly. Listening to your description, your blog indeed holds great documentary value and is truly wonderful.

And so, this article came to be.

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A comment that made me very happy

There was actually another little episode in our subsequent chat.

I told them:

My blog might be relatively easy to find via search, perhaps for one reason: this blog has been running for nearly 15 years.

This was my intuitive judgment at the time.

A website that has existed for a long time accumulates many articles and has been indexed by search engines for years, so it doesn’t seem surprising that people find it through search.

But they gave me a completely different explanation.

They said:

Another point is just my personal feeling: your blog has a purity, untainted by profit, and feels like a pure land with its own charm.

When I saw this sentence, I was actually quite happy.

I specifically replied:

It’s actually not that “pure,” because the blog does run Google ads now, though the income barely covers a fraction of the server costs.

But they then replied:

That’s already rare,
I’m actually just getting started with SEO, and you are the first blogger I’ve contacted.

Serendipity~

These few sentences might actually be the part of this exchange that made me the happiest.

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After blogging for so many years, this is the first time I’ve heard such a comment from a stranger

I’ve been writing on my blog for many years.

Looking back now, many of the articles can hardly be said to have carefully designed “topics.”

Often it’s simply:

I ran into a problem today.

Then spent hours, or even days, tinkering with it.

And finally solved it.

Since I already hit the snag once, I might as well document the process.

Maybe I’ll encounter it again in the future.

Maybe someone else happens to run into the same issue.

And so, the articles accumulated one by one.

Some articles might get almost no views.

Some articles might suddenly start getting traffic from Google searches years later.

I rarely try to predict how much traffic an article will ultimately bring.

So, when a complete stranger enters my blog by searching for a problem and finally tells me:

“Your blog has a purity, untainted by profit, and feels like a pure land with its own charm.”

To me, this is actually more gratifying than “someone willing to give me a free month of Plus.”

Because this comment isn’t evaluating a specific article.

It’s an overall impression they formed after browsing the blog.

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This doesn’t mean I will reject all commercial partnerships in the future

I also don’t want to write this article as an expression that “commercialization is bad.”

I don’t think that at all.

Blogs need servers.

Domains need renewals.

Maintaining a website takes time.

I already run Google ads myself.

If someone uses my referral link in the future to purchase a service I have actually used and found valuable, and I earn a reasonable commission from it, I’m not opposed to that.

For example, WildAI itself doesn’t only provide ChatGPT Plus.

If I actually use Claude Code or other AI product subscription services in the future and the long-term experience is genuinely good, I don’t see any problem with normally providing the service link and disclosing the referral relationship in the article.

What’s truly important is not:

Whether the article has commercial interests.

But rather:

Whether commercial interests change what the article ultimately becomes.

If the product is actually good, I can naturally write about its advantages after using it.

If it malfunctions, I should also be able to document the malfunction normally.

If there’s a refund, I record the refund.

If a renewal fails, I record the failed renewal.

If it gets fixed later, I continue to record the successful fix.

If I haven’t used it at all, then the most accurate statement would be:

I haven’t used it, so I can’t evaluate it right now.

Rather than jumping to the conclusion that “this product is great” just because there’s a partnership involved.

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Why I’m renaming the series

This experience also led me to reconsider the previous series name.

Originally, I categorized this content under:

BeWild Service Hands-On Review Series

But looking back now, that name is a bit too narrow.

Because my actual records have long gone beyond just BeWild.

It now includes:

• ChatGPT Plus;
• WildAI / BeWild;
• Other third-party subscription solutions;
• Automatic renewals;
• Refunds;
• Subscription anomalies;
• Payment channels;
• Service provider quotes;
• Service providers proactively reaching out;
• And in the future, it may also include Claude Code and other AI products.

So starting from this post, I plan to adjust the entire series to:

AI Subscription Services: Hands-On Reviews & Observations Series

English:

AI Subscription Services: Hands-On Reviews & Observations

The “Hands-On Reviews” part will continue to document things I have actually used.

The “Observations” part can record things like what happened this time:

I didn’t actually purchase a service, but providers in the industry proactively reached out to me; a subscription method changed; prices changed; business models changed.

This should be a better fit for what the series actually covers now than tying it solely to one specific service provider.

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From personal records to providers proactively finding me

When I wrote these articles in the past, I rarely thought:

That one day, the service providers in this industry mentioned in my articles would turn around and proactively contact me.

And that it would happen twice in less than half a month.

Once was a service provider pitching themselves, hoping to become a comparison candidate in the future.

The other time went a step further, involving backlinks, sponsored posts, and a free Plus collaboration.

This at least confirmed one thing for me:

These articles have indeed generated some real impact.

It might not yet be considered to have significant commercial value.

The traffic might not be astonishing.

But at the very least, it has started making people in this field find me through search.

For someone who originally just treated the blog as a personal technical record, this change itself is quite interesting.

So I decided to document this as well.

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Regarding the service provider links in this article

For readers’ convenience, the links to the two service providers mentioned in this article are as follows:

• LiuNeng AI: https://liunenglabs.xyz/
• Xiaoxiao AI ChatGPT Plus: https://xiaoxiao.pro/gptplus

A special note is needed:

As of the writing of this article, I have not actually used the paid services of LiuNeng AI or Xiaoxiao AI.

Therefore, the links provided in this article are merely for readers to easily view the service providers and public service information discussed here. This does not represent a recommendation, endorsement, or guarantee of their service quality.

If I actually use one of them in the future, I will document the real purchase, usage, renewal, malfunction, refund, or after-sales process, just as I did with WildAI / BeWild.

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Finally

If I actually use LiuNeng AI, Xiaoxiao AI, or other new AI subscription services in the future, I may still write new hands-on review articles.

If the experience is good, I’ll record the good parts.

If the experience is bad, I’ll record the problems encountered.

If I end up not using them, that’s fine too.

Because for this occasion, what’s truly worth preserving isn’t how a specific service turned out.

But rather:

After I continuously documented my real experiences, this content started prompting people who didn’t know me at all to proactively reach out.

And that comment from this exchange that left a deep impression on me:

“Your blog has a purity, untainted by profit, and feels like a pure land with its own charm.”

I hope that many years from now, when I look back at this article, that sentence will still hold true.

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