Today's update, commemorative pocket watch: At 924 South Ring Road, Central District, Shan City, an antique watch shop is selling a late Republic era pocket watch customized by the United States for Transportation Bank. You can snag it for under a thousand yuan.

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Staying in Shan City for a few days, didn't find much good treasure-hunting info.

Today's tip isn't bad.

So Chen Yiyang rode his motorcycle early to buy this pocket watch from the shop.

This is a very old-fashioned watch, likely made around 1940.

As a bank with a turbulent history, Transportation Bank was founded during the Guangxu era. Though it faced various upheavals, it always managed to thrive.

During the war, due to the conflict, it temporarily moved its headquarters to Shan City.

This pocket watch is likely from that period.

But the pocket watch wasn't made domestically; Transportation Bank commissioned a now-bankrupt American art company to create it as a commemorative piece.

The watch's artistic value is average, but its commemorative value is very high.

Chen Yiyang thought that if he ever had business dealings with Transportation Bank, he could use this pocket watch to form a good relationship.

He tucked the pocket watch into his pocket.

Chen Yiyang was just about to ride his motorcycle back to his apartment when he received a call from Extreme Path Team's new manager, Su Luo.

"Boss, is our team being looked down upon?"

"What's the situation?"

"It's too complicated. Boss, come here and I'll explain."

He drove his motorcycle straight to the front of Extreme Path Team's club and walked into the clubhouse.

Normally, after an international competition, the team members should be on vacation resting.

But this time, the championship craze for Extreme Path Team was so high that the entire club didn't take a break and kept working nonstop to make money.

Even the Extreme Path Team players were arranged by Chen Yiyang to participate in various marketing, advertising shoots, and similar activities.

Though these young people were somewhat unwilling.

However, the championship prize money still hasn't been transferred to the club's account by the game's official, and the club has yet to distribute the bonuses to the players.

So, to earn more money, the players just gritted their teeth and participated in events every day these past few days.

Chen Yiyang walked into the club's office.

The new manager of Extreme Path Team, Su Luo, was already there waiting for Chen Yiyang.

"Boss, look at this page." Su Luo pointed at the office computer screen.

Chen Yiyang glanced at it and found it was the main page of the game Dota Alliance.

According to tradition over the years, the main page should promote the champion team of this year's S-Class international competition.

In other words, the photo of the five Extreme Path Team members holding the trophy should be displayed on this page.

But at this moment, the page featured someone else's photo.

Strictly speaking, it wasn't a person but a virtual image.

The photo of the virtual idol group recently launched by Dota Alliance.

Below the photo, it says limited-time skin sale, full purchase discount, and other offers.

"What's going on, where's our championship promotion?"

"I don't know either. Normally, as soon as the competition ended, our team's championship photo should've been on the homepage.

However, since the finals began, the game's homepage has been promoting the virtual girl group's photo and skin discount packages.

Our championship news is just linked as recent news at the very bottom."

"Is it just the national server doing this or all Dota Alliance servers' main pages?" Chen Yiyang asked.

Due to domestic laws, overseas games must have agents in the country and set up special servers to operate legally.

That's why Chen Yiyang was inquiring if only the national server was like this.

"Let me check." E-sports club computers generally have three to four game server versions downloaded to facilitate exchanges with teams from other servers.

Su Luo skillfully navigated the VPN to log into game servers from other countries.

On the Korean server, European and American servers, and some other smaller servers, the game main page featured Extreme Path Team's championship photo.

But only the national server's game main page displayed the virtual girl group's photo.

It indicates the issue wasn't with the official side of Dota Alliance but rather with the national server operator Tengxu.

"Let me call the head of the Tengxu Entertainment Department." Seeing this, Chen Yiyang immediately took out his phone.

This boss is indeed a top-tier second-generation rich kid.

Su Luo, standing by, had his eyes light up upon hearing Chen Yiyang's words.

Ordinary e-sports club owners facing such issues would only be able to approach the game side's arranged contact person to report problems.

No one expected Chen Yiyang to directly contact the head of a Tengxu department.

When Chen Yiyang called, the other side quickly picked up.

"Haha, little Chen, you're being unfair. If you'd said earlier you were willing to advertise, I could've introduced other shows. Your little artists would still get traffic exposure.

Didn't expect you to turn around and advertise with Zheng Zhiming after I introduced you."

"That's not a fair statement. I was just spending a bit to get my artists more exposure. You wouldn't even blink at that amount."

"Creating 101's few million was indeed not much. But the real cash you spent on 'Goodbye Lover' for that variety show was truly a few tens of millions."

The Tengxu Entertainment head subtly hinted.

Turns out, Chen Yiyang exclusively sponsored the variety show 'Goodbye Lover,' and it's already spreading within the industry.

From the perspective of others in the industry, 'Goodbye Lover,' initially had no highlights with average ratings in the previous seasons.

In its fourth season, originally supposed to lose advertisers, it surprisingly gained an advertiser splashing tens of millions on ads, and from a food industry at that.

It's practically a windfall from the heavens.

An inquiry.

The one who invested in the ads was Chen Yiyang.

The head of Tengxu Entertainment Department felt a bit of a headache.

Although he handles many variety shows, including hits,

Hit shows aren't short on advertisements, while variety shows and TV dramas that don't perform as well really lack quality advertisers.

If only I'd known Chen Yiyang was so generous with ad spending, I should've introduced some of my shows to him that day. Perhaps snagging some tens of millions in ad fees.

"I don't have ad investment opportunities recently. But next time if there's a need, I'll reach out to you first, okay?"

"I'll accept this favor in advance then." Tengxu Entertainment's head was quite satisfied with Chen Yiyang's promise.

"By the way, did you contact me because of something?"

"I just wanted to ask if you know the head of Dota Alliance's national server, I have a few things to ask him."

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