@NOAH_ But that's just it, they never received the DMCA did they? Nor were they ever asked to stop. From what I've seen from these Chinese publishers they only start issuing DMCAs when both the official and the "free" version are competing with eachother, that is they are at the same translation point, but those on tencent's site are barely in their incipient phase, while the scanlations were way ahead, so Tencent would probably not bother asking to remove anything other than the first chapters they actually host, but the advanced chapters could've been continued without issue IMO.
In fact if they continued and demonstrated to Tencent that they have better quality it was highly likely that they would've been commissioned like other groups have and thus they would be doing it legally too. Why didn't they choose this path?