You can get ink for free
idk about other websites, but there's way go earn ink for free! in the notice they already mention fortune cookie, which on average i got 375 ink a week. and with 1 tap the episodes only take 350 ink per episode. other way is sometime there's offer in the inbox massage, to read 3 episode for ink (actually if you don't want to read it, you can just swith to the next chapter ( use the > next button) and do it till you reach episode 3)
switch to the next chapter*
i personally dont have the money to pay for chapters, so if someone knows where i can read it for free, please lmk