However, after Ding Yun's perfume company became popular and profitable, it inevitably attracted a lot of questioning from within and outside the industry.
Many people began to criticize Ding Yun online.
Some even spread rumors.
After all, her perfume business, which was virtually cost-free, was envied and feared by other perfume companies, who worried about its impact on their own businesses.
The criticism focused on two main points.
First, safety concerns.
Many experts, professors, and self-media personalities, after being paid, questioned Ding Yun's perfumes without any verification, suggesting that they were essentially a supernatural ability. Humans understood very little about such abilities, and no one knew if the scent emitted by this ability was harmful to people.
To mass-produce and sell them as perfumes rashly.
Was irresponsible to the public.
If these perfumes continued to be sold and spread, and if there were any unforeseen consequences from this ability, it would be too late for regret.
Second, doubts about authenticity.
Several other ability users who had awakened the "fragrant utterance" ability came forward to state that it was likely a gimmick. Some of them had awakened their abilities for over a decade or two and were unable to liquefy the scents created by their "fragrant utterance" ability to make perfumes.
How could the other party, after awakening so recently, achieve this? It was unreasonable. Adhering to the belief that if I can't do it, neither can anyone else, they insisted that it was a gimmick and they were selling ordinary perfumes.
The so-called limited purchases, with each batch being different.
Was also just a gimmick.
These doubts did have some impact on Ding Yun's business, but she handled them quite simply by presenting three pieces of evidence.
First, the perfume's special attribute identification report.
Second, her ability level identification report.
Third, her mental power level identification report.
With these three pieces of evidence, the online criticism and attacks became futile, and were even mocked by netizens.
"LOL, I love this kind of solid proof refuting rumors and slapping faces. I hope others who claim to be slandered, framed, and say it's all rumors can learn from this!"
"The item attribute report issued by the Ability Management Bureau is the most accurate. Since the report shows that the perfume does indeed contain ability-derived products, and that these products are harmless to the human body, then it is definitely harmless. Compared to this report, the speculations of those professors and experts who raised doubts before are perhaps, possibly, and probably too vague, so vague that they sound like groundless rumors."
"Honestly, when I saw the doubts raised by several ability users who had awakened the 'fragrant utterance' ability, I genuinely thought that the 'fragrant utterance' perfume might be fake. It wasn't until today, when I saw the ability level identification report and mental power level identification report she posted, that I had to believe it. The gap between people is too vast. Having awakened her ability for less than half a year and already reaching level five, while her mental power also reached level ten, a level that ordinary people can hardly reach in a lifetime, compared to me who awakened ten years ago and am only level three in ability and barely level three in mental power, I'm practically trash! If this girl had awakened a combat-type ability, wouldn't she be trained into a war god in minutes? It's too much of a waste to awaken this 'fragrant utterance' ability!"
"After seeing the clarification evidence, I originally wanted to curse out the 'fragrant utterance' ability users who spread rumors, but seeing their current levels, I really couldn't bring myself to do it. Because they can't exactly be considered rumor-mongers. Ordinary people simply cannot imagine the world of geniuses. It's entirely reasonable. I think the two identification reports from the young lady Wen Aiyuan are a fatal blow to them. It's a blow that would make anyone feel disheartened and ashamed!"
"Exactly! Several of them who awakened the 'fragrant utterance' ability over ten years ago and are still hovering between level two and three, with their mental power also hovering between level two and three, questioned someone who is level five in ability and level ten in mental power, thinking she couldn't compress the scent into liquid. Their faces must be swollen from being slapped! It's too pathetic, practically a social death..."
"Based on my analysis, even raising the 'fragrant utterance' ability to level five would still make it difficult to compress the scent into liquid. The reason the young lady Wen Aiyuan can do it is likely due to her mental power. It's normal for many people to find it hard to believe. After all, who would have thought she was so monstrous!"
"Then I absolutely must buy this perfume. This is probably the first time in my life I've encountered something related to level ten mental power, and it's the only thing I can afford."
"Levels one to three are beginner, four to six are intermediate, seven to nine are advanced, and level ten mental power means the strength of a top-tier ability user. I remember there aren't even a hundred such powerful individuals nationwide. Truly amazing, likely innately powerful. It's a shame the awakened ability isn't very good."
"I remember some experts saying that human ability strength is limited by mental power strength. Whatever level mental power reaches, the ability can absolutely reach that level. Therefore, this young lady's 'picture-in-picture fragrant utterance' ability is destined to reach the highest level, level ten? That's too much of a pity... Such a high-level, useless ability, sigh!"
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After a flurry of online discussion, the public opinion crisis for the perfume company was completely resolved. The netizens' attitude was mainly that it was a pity for Ding Yun to have such excellent aptitude but awaken such a trash ability; if she had awakened a better ability, she could have contributed to the country.
Additionally, they felt that even though Ding Yun's perfume raw materials didn't have any effect on improving mental power according to the test results, people felt that since the ingredients were compressed by level ten mental power, it was a good sign. This led to everyone rushing to buy it.
Don't think this is an exaggeration. When a top scholar emerges, schools are eager to enroll, people scramble for the scholar's notes, and the inn where the scholar stayed is crowded. People even forcibly touch lottery winners to absorb good luck. Who wouldn't know there's no direct connection? But who wouldn't want to try, believing it's better to be safe than sorry? Trying it costs nothing, and a perfume of a few hundred yuan is not unaffordable.
Ding Yun was so tired that she trained her ability until it was depleted every day, yet she still couldn't meet the supply, having to resort to limited purchases and pre-orders. And it was while supplies lasted. After all, she couldn't risk her life for money. Even though her body was digitized by the game system, so she didn't have to worry about the physical effects of ability depletion. But people still get tired, and ability recovery takes time. Even without attending school, daily output is limited. Ding Yun did not want to give up her wonderful, free, and easy campus life to become a raw material supplier, especially one who produced her own raw materials. Therefore, she could only reduce inventory and daily sales volume, ensuring her ability training frequency remained similar to before, so as not to affect her studies and leisure, nor to exhaust herself.