Jiang Yan had considered building a new home within her dimension, so she purchased twenty sets of the latest refrigerators, washing machines, dryers, induction cookers, microwave ovens, ovens, dishwashers, smart toilets, massage bathtubs, and more.
For kitchenware and tableware, she bought thirty sets of each.
Although Jiang Yan had a passion for cooking and gourmet food, preparing meals every day during the Apocalypse wasn't practical. Thus, she also bought over a dozen sets of automatic cooking pots and various vegetable cutting artifacts.
Considering she might sometimes cook outside her dimension, she stocked up on cassette stoves, alcohol stoves, wood stoves, and others for times without electricity or gas.
The reason for buying so many was to simply discard them once they broke beyond her ability to repair.
Aside from rice, flour, oil, meat, eggs, and dairy, daily-use paper products were another essential item to stockpile in large quantities.
Jiang Yan went all out in this category.
She purchased fifty thousand units each of toilet rolls, tissues, pocket tissues, wipes, facial towels, and kitchen paper.
For feminine hygiene, she bought ten thousand units each of sanitary pads—daytime, nighttime, panty-style, and panty liners—while less familiar menstrual cups were bought in five hundred units.
Despite having smart toilets with automatic heating and rinsing functions, she still bought ten thousand units of toilet paper.
Having experienced mask shortages before, disinfection supplies were also on her stockpiling list.
One hundred thousand masks, ten tons of disinfectant alcohol, ten tons of bleach disinfectant, ten thousand units of disinfectant wipes, along with thermometers, mops, cleaning cloths, and spray bottles—all were stored in her dimension.
Various types of insecticides and pesticides were bought in batches of one thousand units each.
Since the early stages saw her warehouse constantly occupied by deliveries of rice, flour, oil, and other staples, she saved bulk purchases of vegetables and fruits for last.
Cabbage, potatoes, onions, lettuce, tomatoes, corn, Chinese broccoli, shiitake mushrooms, button mushrooms, broccoli, asparagus, eggplant, Chinese kale, baby bok choy, yam, lettuce stems, lotus root, watercress, pea shoots, fennel, spinach, and more—six tons of each.
For less preferred items like fresh chestnuts, taro, bamboo shoots, peas, tofu, sweet potatoes, and celery, she bought one ton of each.
Other seasonings such as scallions, ginger, garlic, cilantro, chili peppers, and mint were purchased in five thousand kilograms each.
Pre-packaged vegetable salads and fruit salads with various dressing flavors were bought in ten thousand units each.
Beyond the imported supermarket salads, she also sought out several well-reviewed health food stores to order their signature low-calorie fitness meals, getting three thousand units of each variety.
For fruits, she stocked ten thousand kilograms each of various citrus fruits, durian, apples, cherries, watermelon, honeydew melon, dragon fruit, young coconuts, bananas, avocados, lychees, pineapple, and mangosteen. Strawberries, grapes, pears, longan, passion fruit, papaya, lemons, and dates were bought in five thousand kilograms each.
Personal care products were naturally not overlooked. She purchased five thousand units each of facial cleanser, makeup remover, shampoo, conditioner, essential oil, toothpaste, dental floss, mouthwash, hair removal devices, razors, body wash, bath salts, soap, hand sanitizer, laundry beads, liquid detergent, laundry powder, bar soap, dishwashing liquid, dishcloths, toilet cleaner, degreaser, and various cleaning agents.
When selecting these items, aside from brand reputation, she prioritized those with subtle fragrances—products that wouldn't draw attention after use.
As for skincare, she ordered a small quantity of well-reviewed domestic products online.
Skincare from Korea and Japan had a strong reputation and suited Asian skin types, but given the circumstances, she avoided Japanese cosmetics entirely. Instead, she bought a batch of Korean products. The rest, she planned to purchase abroad, as many international skincare lines differed significantly in formulation and efficacy compared to their domestic counterparts.
Drawing from her extensive novel-reading experience, she also bought a hundred tons of cat litter and a heap of trash bags.
Thinking of the fertile black soil in her dimension, eagerly awaiting cultivation, she stocked up on seeds, saplings, farming tools, and gardening equipment. She even placed an international online order for two sets of automated soilless cultivation machines. These machines were ideal for growing lettuce, water spinach, and spinach, though the delivery would take a month.
Passing by a bookstore, the avid reader and lover of physical books didn't hold back. She bought two copies each of books on business management, life wisdom, science fiction, gourmet wellness, classic literature, agriculture, livestock farming, and all sorts of miscellaneous novels—one to read and one to collect.
To stave off boredom during the Apocalypse, she spent nearly a million on over two hundred different Lego sets, ranging from simple to complex builds. One of them, the Hogwarts Castle set, would likely take Jiang Yan a month to assemble, if she could even finish it at all.
Beyond Legos, she also bought sticker paintings, Guka kits, sealing wax stamps, and other craft supplies, along with drawing books—essentially, anything a child might enjoy. E-books were naturally part of the preparation as well.
She downloaded entire libraries of her favorite anime, TV series, movies, financial interviews, celebrity gossip, science documentaries, and agricultural programs for offline viewing. Music was a must, too—spanning genres from pop, rock, and classical to hip-hop, traditional Chinese, and even square dance compilations and children's songs.
Downloading and backing up all these resources was time-consuming and labor-intensive, so she hired someone to categorize, store, and label everything on external hard drives for her.
She bought two home theater systems, two home karaoke setups, dance machines, Street Fighter arcade machines, various gaming consoles, and VR glasses—stopping just short of emptying the entire arcade. Whether she'd use them or not didn't matter; the point was having everything money and space could afford.
As a fitness enthusiast, and knowing that physical strength would be crucial for survival in the Apocalypse, she commissioned her favorite gym's owner to customize five sets of personal gym equipment tailored to her needs.
From small items like yoga mats, yoga balls, dumbbells, jump ropes, and ab rollers to larger equipment such as treadmills, elliptical machines, and climbing machines—everything was fully stocked.
After purchasing and hoarding all these supplies, Jiang Yan did a quick calculation and realized nine small financial goals had vanished from her account.
Vegetables, tissues, and similar items didn't cost much. The down payment for the house and the renovation expenses came to less than a million. The bulk of the spending went toward meat, premium cigarettes and alcohol, and especially various energy sources, which consumed a significant portion.
Fortunately, the final payments from selling her properties, cars, watches, and bags had also come through.
Altogether, she had earned 230 million, most of which came from her mother's premium villa—the crown jewel of the properties.