Joy of Life novel: where to start reading
Start 庆余年 (Joy of Life) at 首 珠串 on Qidian, book 114559, by 猫腻. That row sits on a shelf named 作品相关. 第一卷 在澹州 restarts at 楔子 一块黑布. Catalog only.
Back to this book topic → Joy of Life: After the Drama, Where the Novel Starts
Catalog only. The chapter bodies were not read. No quoted lines, no free-preview paste, no claim that a shelf named 作品相关, a restarted 第一章, or the newest button equals a different novel.
Search Joy of Life, or 庆余年, and the useful question is still smaller than 833 catalog slots. Where do you start. English searchers already use Joy of Life. The Qidian page does not print an English title. The mobile book page is book 114559, author 猫腻. The first catalog row is 首 珠串, and it sits on a shelf the page names 作品相关. That shelf holds 56 rows. The next title on it is 一 他是皇帝. The drama note on this shelf, after the show, still start the novel, is about the separate books titled 第一季, 第二季, and 第三季. Those are not this row.
The story volume named 第一卷 在澹州 opens on 楔子 一块黑布, chapter 2987319, and the next row is 第一章 故事会. 第二卷 在京都 starts again at 第一章 初入范府. Two titles begin with 第一章. VIP卷 continues at 第二卷在京都 第三十四章 官司临头. The newest catalog timestamp is 庆余年第二季开播，《叶轻眉日记》起点独家发布, chapter 792891040. The mobile book page said 完本.
Start at 首 珠串
Open 首 珠串 on Qidian and follow that catalog from the front of the shelf named 作品相关, not from 一块黑布 and not from the newest button. The Chinese original, 庆余年, is the book page. On 15 October 2026 the mobile page called it 完本, author 猫腻, category 架空历史, updated 2024-05-16 14:03:44, with a stats line of 395.91万 characters. The catalog page listed 833 chapters. The public pitch was not copied here.
The newest button is not the door
The newest catalog timestamp points at 庆余年第二季开播，《叶轻眉日记》起点独家发布. 395.91万 characters is a warning label, not homework. You are deciding whether a first row that is 首 珠串, on a finished book the page files under 架空历史, is your kind of door. You are not signing up to finish a book this page did not read. 完本 is a status. It is not a review.
Who should start here
Try it if a search for Joy of Life, 庆余年, or 从哪开始看 sent you and you want this Chinese original by 猫腻, on book 114559. The same writer’s later door is Toward the Dao.
Leave it if you want a newcomer’s first chance at training, checked scene by scene. That door is the RMJI opening guide. The shelf is the Joy of Life reading series.
Sources and limits
Checked on 15 October 2026, from public Qidian pages only. The desktop book URL returned an anti-bot stub; the mobile book page and catalog loaded. Book page: status 完本, category 架空历史, stats line 395.91万 characters, canonical https://www.qidian.com/book/114559/. First row: 作品相关, 首 珠串, chapter 20203867. The next catalog title was 一 他是皇帝, chapter 20236869, which this page did not open. 第一卷 在澹州 starts at 楔子 一块黑布. The newest timestamp was 庆余年第二季开播，《叶轻眉日记》起点独家发布. The catalog counted 833 chapters. No chapter body was copied. The 395.91万 figure is the character total on the book record, shown here as 总字数.