City of Sin: where to start 罪恶之城
Start 罪恶之城 (City of Sin) at 第1章 毁灭与希望上 on Qidian, by 烟雨江南. The newest slot is 第1442章 直到世界尽头（全书完）. Both volumes are named 正文卷, and the second keeps counting. This note used the catalog, not the chapter text.
Back to this book topic → City of Sin: Opening Guide, Start at Chapter 1
Catalog only. The chapter bodies were not read. No quoted lines, no free-preview paste, no claim that an ending label, a later volume with the same name, or a fanfic equals the first door.
Search 罪恶之城, City of Sin, or the pen name 烟雨江南, and the useful question is still smaller than 1442 catalog slots. Where do you start. The Qidian page itself does not print an English title. English searchers already use City of Sin for this book, so that is the name on this shelf. The story shelf’s first title is 第1章 毁灭与希望上, in a volume named 正文卷. The newest row the page offers is not that chapter. Its title is 第1442章 直到世界尽头（全书完）, and the catalog stamps that row with the same clock as the book’s last update, 8 May 2018. A label that says the whole book is finished is a label that says the whole book is finished. It is not the door. A second volume on the same catalog is also named 正文卷. It opens on 第31章 若在冬季 中. Same volume name, next number. It does not restart at chapter 1. No catalog title here is a 感言, an author note, or a next-book ad. The trap with a near name lives on another book id.
Start at 第1章 毁灭与希望上
Open 第1章 毁灭与希望上 on Qidian and follow that catalog from the first 正文卷, not from the newest button. The Chinese original, 罪恶之城, is the book page. On 14 October 2026 the mobile page called it 完本, author 烟雨江南, category 奇幻·史诗奇幻, last update 2018-05-08 16:25:49, with a stats line of 420.65万 characters. The catalog page listed 1442 chapters and marked the book finished. The public pitch was not copied here, and it is not a map from a volume named 正文卷 to a scene.
The next catalog title was 第2章 毁灭与希望中. That is a label on a contents page. This note did not open it. Only one catalog title begins with 第1章. The first 正文卷 holds chapters 1 through 30 and ends on 第30章 若在冬季 上. The second 正文卷 continues at chapter 31. The numbers already told you where the story shelf continues. A fanfic listing, 罪恶之城之新的火山, book 1041156964, author 登山公, also has a first title, 第一章 新生. That is a different book, 17 catalog slots, and it is not this door.
The newest button is the ending label
The same book page’s newest chapter was 第1442章 直到世界尽头（全书完）, chapter 406070066. The title wears 全书完. It is not chapter 1. The row just before it is 第1441章 梦想开始的地方, chapter 406070065. Those titles were not opened. Every catalog row this page checked carried the timestamp 2018-05-08 16:25:49, the same clock as the book update line, so the catalog did not hand out a separate publish date for chapter 1. A finished book can still put its ending in the newest slot. The slot is not the beginning.
420.65万 characters is a warning label, not homework. You are deciding whether a first story title that is 第1章 毁灭与希望上, on a book the page already calls 完本, in 奇幻·史诗奇幻, is your kind of door. You are not signing up to finish a book this page did not read, and you are not signing up for a watch-order chart. Finished is a status. It is not a review.
Who should start here
Try it if a search for City of Sin or 从哪开始看 sent you and you want this Chinese original by 烟雨江南, you can ignore a newest button that already says 全书完, and you can tell book 1011973053 from the fanfic 1041156964. Same western-flavored shelf, a finished catalog whose first story is 第一章 穿越 and whose newest button is a next-book notice, is the Warlock of the Magus World opening guide. A finished catalog whose first story is 第一章 外乡人 and whose newest button is an extra is the Circle of Inevitability opening guide. Those pages used the contents list and did not read the chapters.
Leave it if you want a newcomer’s first chance at training, checked scene by scene. That door is the RMJI opening guide. That page stays inside what it actually checked. This one does not pretend to have read a chapter. The shelf is the City of Sin reading series.
Sources and limits
Checked on 14 October 2026, from public Qidian pages only. The desktop book URL returned an anti-bot stub (HTTP 202); the mobile book page and catalog loaded. Book 1011973053: title 罪恶之城, author 烟雨江南, status 完本, category 奇幻, subcategory 史诗奇幻, update time 2018-05-08 16:25:49, stats line 420.65万 characters, canonical https://www.qidian.com/book/1011973053/. The public description was not copied here as chapter text. The catalog’s first volume is 正文卷, volume 71230908, 30 slots. Its first title was 第1章 毁灭与希望上, chapter 406068602. The next catalog title was 第2章 毁灭与希望中, chapter 406068603, which this page did not open. That volume’s last title was 第30章 若在冬季 上, chapter 406068632. The next volume is also named 正文卷, volume 71230910, 1412 slots, and continues at 第31章 若在冬季 中, chapter 406068633. Only one title begins with 第1章. Numbering runs from 1 to 1442 without a second chapter 1. The newest listed title was 第1442章 直到世界尽头（全书完）, chapter 406070066. The unopened neighbor just before it was 第1441章 梦想开始的地方, chapter 406070065. Every checked catalog row was stamped 2018-05-08 16:25:49. A different book, 罪恶之城之新的火山, book 1041156964, author 登山公, status 完本, 17 slots, opens on 第一章 新生. No chapter body was copied. A reader-count line, 3.79万 书友, was not treated as a word count; the 420.65万 figure is the line shown as 总字数.