Today's intelligence, jewelry mistaken as props: A film prop rental center in Lin'an City is selling their props.

Purchasing the Butterfly Diamond Necklace among them is a chance to hit the jackpot.

Note: This Butterfly Diamond Necklace was once a piece of jewelry of Catherine the Great, the Russian Empress.

Photos and location details of the relevant item have been attached on page two.

Chen Yiyang rubbed his eyes upon waking up in the morning.

He still found it hard to believe today's intel.

Goodness, a piece from Catherine the Great, the most famous Russian Tsarina, amazingly exists in a film props company in Lin'an?

Chen Yiyang checked the intel several times to ensure he hadn't read it wrong.

Then he set off immediately to see what was going on.

Chen Yiyang set out by car at once, heading all the way to the location of the film props company mentioned in the intel.

This company was located in an ancient-style town.

When Chen Yiyang arrived, there were already quite a number of people buying things, mostly young women.

After casually asking a few things, Chen Yiyang found out from the store clerk.

This props company originally specialized in providing costumes and props for period film and television productions, but they had been struggling with income in recent years and decided not to continue business.

All their original film props were being sold at a discount.

Once the photographers' groups in Lin'an learned of this, many people came to buy these props, intending to use them for customers in their photo studios.

So the items here were quite popular.

Seeing this, Chen Yiyang didn't bother with disguises and quickly found the Butterfly Diamond Necklace from the intel.

He took it to the counter to ask for the price before it was snapped up by someone else.

"Two thousand yuan," the counter staff said casually.

"Two thousand?"

"One thousand eight would do as well."

"Let me scan the code."

Chen Yiyang wasn't intending to bargain; he was just a bit taken aback to hear that something so valuable was only priced at two thousand yuan.

But truth be told, against the other film props in the store, this Butterfly Diamond Necklace seemed somewhat unremarkable.

Image of Catherine the Great's Butterfly Diamond Necklace.

Based on the information Chen Yiyang had found previously.

This Butterfly Diamond Necklace was supposedly made entirely from multiple diamonds, and using such a method in that era was primarily intended to showcase the quality and craftsmanship of the diamonds.

After all, those Russian Tsars were crazy diamond enthusiasts, delighting in making all sorts of items with diamonds.

It's said that Catherine even had a Bible embedded with more than three thousand diamonds.

However, this Bible, along with many jewels of the Russian Tsars, vanished without a trace amid the chaos of war.

At the time, those Tsars surely couldn't have imagined.

That centuries later, diamonds would become so abundant.

For example, Zhecheng County in Huaxia, the diamond capital, produces over four million carats of diamonds annually, more than half of the world's total diamond output.

These artificially made diamonds look even more perfect and pure than natural diamonds.

Furthermore, modern cutting technology surpasses that of Catherine's era by a mile.

So, other diamond jewelry in the props company is made with artificial diamonds and modern cutting techniques, visually outshining the Butterfly Diamond Necklace once worn by Empress Catherine.

As Chen Yiyang paid with a scan, the staff kindly brought a bag for him to store his purchase.

Just as Chen Yiyang was putting the Butterfly Diamond Necklace in the bag, he heard someone question from behind, "Is that Mr. Chen?"

Chen Yiyang turned around.

A middle-aged man he didn't recognize.

To be polite, Chen Yiyang asked, "And you are?"

"I'm Dong Nanrun, a director and screenwriter," the man said, extending his hand.

After shaking hands with him, Chen Yiyang tried hard to recall this man's name in his mind.

But alas, although he had invested in many films and shows, he wasn't familiar with less prominent figures in the film industry.

"I was the screenwriter for the movies 'Mr. Six' and 'Crazy Alien.'"

Seeing Chen Yiyang's expression, Dong Nanrun guessed that Chen hadn't a clue who he was, so he proactively mentioned his past works.

Though Chen Yiyang wasn't particularly keen on watching those movies, their box office performance was pretty good, earning them a certain level of fame.

The man actually seemed to be rather well-known within the industry.

"I've heard a lot about you, Mr. Chen, and didn't expect to run into you here. I wonder if we might have a chance to chat a bit?"

"Are you the owner here?"

"One of the shareholders, but since it's closing down, I came to have a look."

"Let's have a chat then."

Chen Yiyang was somewhat reluctant to just leave after snagging quite a deal here.

So he followed Dong Nanrun into the company's meeting room.

As Dong Nanrun went to pour water for them, Chen Yiyang casually set aside the newly bought item and took out his phone to look up the man's name.

What the guy said was true; he was indeed a well-known screenwriter in the industry. Besides those two films, he had written many famous TV series.

But in the film industry, any ambitious backstage worker aspires to be a director.

So after writing several screenplays, Dong Nanrun eventually couldn't resist and began directing and scripting his own first movie.

Being a well-known insider, even though Dong Nanrun was directing for the first time, he garnered considerable support in the industry, from financial backers to crew members.

The leading male role was cast with the then-hot award-winning actor, Huang Bo, and the female lead was one of the post-80s four little flower actresses, Wang Luodan.

Additionally, Bai Ke, very famous in the web drama domain at the time, was invited.

With such a lineup, it was considered quite top-notch in the film industry.

Then.

Invested over two hundred million,

Box office seventy million.

All the investors lost their shirts.

"Here's the water."

At that moment, Dong Nanrun brought over two cups of water, prompting Chen Yiyang to hastily put away his phone.

"Why would a big boss like you come here in person?"

Chen Yiyang was intrigued about why Dong Nanrun sought him out.

Similarly curious about running into him, the legendary figure in the film circle in such a place, Dong Nanrun asked.

"I saw this place on the way and popped in to pick up something." Chen Yiyang responded quite candidly.

Having seen what Chen Yiyang bought earlier, Dong Nanrun had no doubts regarding his explanation and simply remarked, "I remember the Butterfly Diamond Necklace you purchased. It was brought in by a girl around seventeen or eighteen shortly after our prop company opened.

She claimed it was something her grandma left her. We judged it to be a modern piece made with diamond craftsmanship at a glance, so we offered a little over a thousand bucks, and to our surprise, she agreed to sell it."

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