Da Feng Night Watchman: where to start the novel

Catalog only. The chapter bodies were not read. No quoted lines, no later cases, no claim that a drama episode equals a chapter.

Search 大奉打更人, Da Feng Night Watchman, or Nightwatchman of Great Feng, and the useful question is still smaller than the book. Where do you start. The catalog’s first story is 第一章 牢狱之灾. The newest button is not that chapter. It is a reservation notice for a digital collectible. A skip list will call that “the latest.” A skip list is how you buy a token while the jail door is still shut.

Start at 第一章 牢狱之灾

Open 第一章 牢狱之灾 on Qidian and follow that book’s own order from the front. The Chinese original, 大奉打更人, is the book page. On 13 October 2026 the mobile page called it 完本, author 卖报小郎君, shelf 仙侠·幻想修仙, last update 2022-01-05 13:25:34, with a stats line of 380.1万 characters. The catalog page said the book was finished and listed 952 chapters. The public description is a short pitch: a police-academy graduate wakes in a cell, in a world the page says has Confucians, Daoists, Buddhists, demons, and ritualists, and the job in the title is a night watchman. That is the pitch on the book page. It is not a scene this page read, and it is not a summary of what happens after the title.

The next catalog title was 第二章 妖物作祟. That is a label on a contents page. This note did not open it. A volume name, 京察风云, sits above chapter 1. A volume name is a shelf label. It is not a later door you are supposed to jump to.

The newest button is an ad

The same book page’s “latest chapter” was 《大奉打更人之诸天万界》数字藏品预约开始啦！, timestamped 2022-01-05. The title is a reservation for a digital collectible tied to a spinoff name. It is not chapter 1 of this novel, and it is not a scene. Tap it because a clip made you impatient, and you left the jail door for a shop sign.

380.1万 characters is a warning label, not homework. You are deciding whether a first title that says 牢狱之灾 is your kind of door. You are not signing up to finish a book this page did not read. Qidian already marks it 完本. Finished is a status on the book page. It is not a review.

Who should start here

Try it if you want the Chinese original, you like a mystery that starts with a job title, and you can ignore a newest button that is really an advertisement. Same catalog limit as the Martial Universe opening guide: that page starts at 第一章 林动, and its newest button is an ad for 大主宰. This page did not check any chapter body either. The other finished catalogs on this shelf open on different doors. Perfect World starts at the prologue 序章 大荒. Shrouding the Heavens starts at chapter 1, a bronze coffin. A serial catalog with the same limit is the Sword Comes opening guide, which starts at 第1章 惊蛰. Those pages used the contents list and did not read the chapters.

Leave it if you want a public ranking fight in the first scene, a newcomer’s first chance at training, or a mystery about whose name you woke up wearing. Those doors are the Battle Through the Heavens opening guide, the RMJI opening guide, and the Lord of Mysteries opening guide. Those pages stay inside chapters they actually checked. This one does not pretend to. The shelf is the Da Feng Night Watchman reading series.

Sources and limits

Checked on 13 October 2026, from public Qidian pages only. Book 1019664125: title 大奉打更人, author 卖报小郎君, status 完本, shelf 仙侠·幻想修仙, update time 2022-01-05 13:25:34, stats line 380.1万 characters, catalog line 已经完本 · 共952章, canonical https://www.qidian.com/book/1019664125/. The public description is a short pitch about waking in a cell. That pitch was not copied here as chapter text. First catalog story: 第一章 牢狱之灾, chapter 523355436. The next catalog title was 第二章 妖物作祟, chapter 523358024, which this page did not open. The newest listed title was 《大奉打更人之诸天万界》数字藏品预约开始啦！, chapter 692743161, a collectible reservation. That title was not opened. No chapter body was copied. A reader-count line on the book page was not treated as a word count; the 380.1万 figure is the line labeled 总字数.