After Waking Up I Inherited the Earth [Interstellar] – CH65

Chapter 65

With the Earth Trading Company name as a guarantee of hype and trust, the hydrosols and essential oils blew up.

Almost immediately, many streamers paid huge sums to buy these nine types of essential oils and hydrosols from the winners, rubbing their hands together as they prepared to go live.

The oils and hydrosols Earth Trading Company gave away were all samples—and tiny samples at that!

The amounts were small, but if you used them sparingly, the essential oils could last about three to four days. The 10 ml hydrosols were better; no matter what, they could last about half a month.

And some streamers were absurdly rich. They didn’t bother conserving anything. To ensure visible results, they spent big money buying the winners’ oils and hydrosols—and they promised to write at least a 50-word experience report so the winners could submit it. Just like that, they really did collect quite a few prizes.

So the money-hungry people got money, and the streamers got a month’s worth of livestream content.

But what no one expected was that after a month of use, these picky, moneyed young “young masters” and “young ladies” of the streaming world ended up falling deeply in love with Earth Trading Company’s essential oils and hydrosols!

Especially after one famous, long-suffering rich-boy streamer gave his lavender essential oil to his dad—and his dad actually rewarded him with a starship in return—StarNet suddenly saw a wave of second-generation rich kids dedicated to buying up lavender essential oil and hydrosol. They forcibly speculated the price of 1 ml lavender essential oil and 10 ml hydrosol up to forty to fifty thousand StarCoins.

Hearing this, Xie Xingchen thought: Time to harvest the customers’ wallets.

As of today, Xie Xingchen had received 158,000 reports.

According to the giveaway rules, everyone who won a prize submitted a trial report. Although a small number sold their prizes, that was the minority—so these trial reports were highly reliable.

With that many reports, there was no way Xie Xingchen could review them one by one.

He spent a little money to import the reports into his light-brain. The device analyzed the sample set automatically, producing charts, information, even conclusions and suggestions.

After using it once, Xie Xingchen was instantly converted. He even regretted discovering this paid function so late—if he’d found it earlier, the reports he submitted to his professor wouldn’t have looked so awful!

Opening the analysis, he found that among the 158,000 data points, not a single one suggested the products had no effect.

Of course, depending on the individual, the strength of the effects varied. But even so, there were far more people calling the results “amazing” than those saying they were merely “okay.”

As for the rest—aside from a handful of comments that looked like obvious nitpicking—there were basically no bad reviews.

Alright. That was enough!

It meant he could launch the new products with confidence.

He saved the report to his light-brain’s local storage, opened his contacts, and in the designers’ group chat he @’d everyone with full “client-dad” authority, demanding they finish designing all eighteen bottles as soon as possible.

Before the designers could start swearing, Xie Xingchen promptly quit the chat and strolled off cheerfully to inspect his flower fields.

When he first arrived on Earth, he’d had only a few small plots. Now, his flower fields stretched as far as the eye could see.

Working nonstop, trading effort for results—Xie Xingchen finally felt he’d earned the right to be a little willful.

So, with abundant raw materials on hand, he made a sweeping decision: starting tomorrow, he would officially begin producing essential oils.

Of course, mass production was out of the question. He still needed to consider output for fresh flowers, flower teas, and the like.

But he wasn’t planning to go huge anyway. Expensive products were best made in small batches.

The next day.

After the robots woke up and began working, some went to pick flowers in the fields as instructed. Others took the harvested lavender, jasmine, orange blossom, osmanthus, rose, lily, camellia—and a small amount of wild chrysanthemum and Damascus rose—to the Beauty Workshop to wash and shade-dry them.

Among the eight flower types, wild chrysanthemum was used the least. Not because the yield was low or the effect was poor, but because Xie Xingchen knew many parents were scrambling for wild chrysanthemum tea to “reduce internal heat” for their kids—so he couldn’t bring himself to take too much to make essential oil. He only grabbed a little, and the amount was even less than the recently planted Damascus roses.

But honestly, wild chrysanthemum had a pretty good oil yield, and its repairing and *** effects were excellent. The future market would definitely be big.

Still—he couldn’t, so he planned to set its price as the lowest and sell it as a limited-quantity, limited-time item.

As for the plentiful lavender, jasmine, orange blossom, osmanthus, rose, lily, and camellia—those would be normal supply items.

Xie Xingchen discovered that his flowers had exceptionally high oil yields.

He didn’t use that many flowers, yet the oil yield was unexpectedly high.

Each flower type used several times more raw material than Damascus rose, but the essential oils produced ended up ten or even twenty times more than the Damascus rose essential oil.

So far, he had obtained:

• 300 g lavender essential oil
• 300 g osmanthus essential oil
• 250 g jasmine essential oil
• 200 g orange blossom essential oil
• 150 g rose essential oil
• 150 g lily essential oil
• 150 g camellia essential oil
• 100 g wild chrysanthemum essential oil
• 50 g Damascus rose essential oil

Generally speaking, distilling 100 g of essential oil also yields 60,000 ml of hydrosol, and 1 g of essential oil is roughly 20 drops by standard dropper measure.

Using the dilution ratio of 10 ml base oil per 1 drop of concentrated essential oil—and with Xie Xingchen deciding to dilute hydrosols at a 1:1 ratio—he ended up with the following products:

• Lavender essential oil: 60,000 ml; hydrosol: 180,000 ml
• Osmanthus essential oil: 60,000 ml; hydrosol: 180,000 ml
• Jasmine essential oil: 50,000 ml; hydrosol: 150,000 ml
• Orange blossom essential oil: 40,000 ml; hydrosol: 120,000 ml
• Rose essential oil: 30,000 ml; hydrosol: 90,000 ml
• Lily essential oil: 30,000 ml; hydrosol: 90,000 ml
• Camellia essential oil: 30,000 ml; hydrosol: 90,000 ml
• Wild chrysanthemum essential oil: 20,000 ml; hydrosol: 60,000 ml
• Damascus rose essential oil: 10,000 ml; hydrosol: 30,000 ml

The combined hydrosol quantity across all nine types was substantial—but… he ran out of coconut oil for dilution.

So after using the remaining coconut oil to dilute part of the concentrated flower essential oils, Xie Xingchen led Get-Rich and the other robots back to Qiong Island to harvest coconuts and make more coconut oil.

Even though the weather was gradually cooling elsewhere, tropical Qiong Island was still hot.

There were countless coconut trees and countless coconuts—but aside from nimble little squirrels and a few birds, no animals could really do any damage to them.

But then Xie Xingchen arrived… so they were done for.

He couldn’t be bothered hauling coconuts back. He went to the new custom service zone at the Mechanical Trading Company and commissioned a coconut-oil-making machine. Then, right there in the tropical plantation, he built an oil workshop specifically for producing coconut oil.

After the workshop was completed, he ran a test on the machine. Once he confirmed everything worked, he carried a pile of fruit and went back.

A few days later, the base oil he needed finally arrived.

Xie Xingchen diluted all the concentrated flower essential oils—ending up with a whole warehouse full of various floral essential oils and hydrosols.

Only then did he suddenly remember something:

He still hadn’t opened a store for skincare products!

“Damn, I totally forgot I need to open a store to sell skincare,” Xie Xingchen blurted.

And right after remembering, he felt a powerful urge to go on strike.

Seriously—aren’t things supposed to get less as you build systems?

Why did it always feel like the work never ended—and the more he did, the more there was?

He took a deep breath, fought down his primal laziness, and forced himself to open the StarNet Mall decoration page.

But with zero inspiration, he could only keep swapping templates until one finally felt “about right,” and then he began decorating.

For this essential-oil skincare shop, Xie Xingchen wanted a high-end route. That meant the interior had to look luxurious.

But he wasn’t a professional designer. His idea of “luxurious” was probably just a normal person’s version of it, so… he decided to do the simplest thing:

Sort by price.

Xie Xingchen smiled.

With money, nothing was a problem.

He sorted by descending price and picked a one-of-a-kind paid template.

These were designer works uploaded to the decoration space—unique, beautifully furnished, and not cheap.

After choosing a style and then hunting for the one that best matched his taste, he spent about half an hour before finally clicking “Save preview.”

This décor cost him seven figures, but it was absolutely worth it!

The store wasn’t just high-end; it also somehow echoed the style of his other shops.

From the outside it looked refined, but once you stepped inside, you finally understood what low-key luxury meant.

Every counter—every display rack—was made from the most precious gems and metals in the galaxy.

Beautiful, and extremely expensive.

Just standing outside, people without a solid fortune would feel too embarrassed to walk in.

“Done.” Xie Xingchen clapped his hands and clicked [Confirm].

A thick fog appeared at once, covering the freshly decorated shop.

Based on each flower’s oil yield and the flower’s own value, Xie Xingchen set different prices for the same-size hydrosols and essential oils.

Among equal volumes, Damascus rose essential oil and hydrosol were the most expensive—several times higher than the others: the essential oil was priced at 200,000 StarCoins per 10 ml, and the hydrosol at 100,000 StarCoins per 100 ml.

Next, among the other oils, camellia essential oil was the priciest. It was only slightly cheaper than Damascus rose, priced at 150,000 StarCoins per 10 ml, and its hydrosol at 75,000 StarCoins per 100 ml.

The cheapest was the special item—wild chrysanthemum essential oil: 50,000 StarCoins per 10 ml, and 25,000 StarCoins per 100 ml hydrosol. Unfortunately, wild chrysanthemum essential oil was a limited item with very low quantity, and production likely wouldn’t increase much in the future.

The remaining essential oils were priced between 100,000–150,000 StarCoins, with hydrosols at half the corresponding essential oil price—luxury goods only the rich could afford.

In addition, Xie Xingchen used milk, coconut oil, and fresh flowers to make a batch of coconut-scented and milk-scented floral handmade soaps. Because he added a small amount of flower essential oil, each soap carried a faint floral fragrance, and some even contained visible, pretty flowers.

Since he had time, he chose not to do hot-process soap, instead opting for cold-process soap, which had better effects and preserved nutrients more effectively.

Cold-process soap was a hassle, but with safe additives it could be accelerated—after sitting for a week, it would be ready to sell.

And the hassle was a one-time thing: make a large batch once, then produce and sell gradually afterward, keeping inflow and outflow balanced.

Because the materials were inexpensive—flowers and essential oils used were minimal, and the base oils weren’t pricey—Xie Xingchen didn’t plan to profit from soap. He treated it as an add-on for the skincare store, so he didn’t price it high.

For just 5,000 StarCoins, anyone could buy a bar of floral soap. Use it sparingly and one bar could last months!

After listing nine essential oils, nine hydrosols, floral handmade soap, and other items—twenty products total—Xie Xingchen smiled in satisfaction.

[Xie Xingchen V: Earth Trading Company essential oils, hydrosols, and floral handmade soaps will launch on the 1st of next month. If you need them, remember to set an alarm! P.S. Repost this post for a draw—100 users will each receive 10,000 StarCoins.]

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