Reputation points represent the positive evaluations and recognition you receive from others, and are closely related to your fame, public image, achievements, and social status. They can be obtained through professional channels.

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Cardholders can use reputation points to exchange for various goods and items in the Centurion APP mall.

After returning to the previous menu, continue by pressing 1. First, use reputation points to exchange for one day of life value and see what happens. The phone prompts that the exchange was successful. Life value is now 1,096 days remaining, with 9,999 reputation points left.

William Bolton felt a bit frustrated. What kind of useless thing is reputation value? It takes 10,000 reputation points to exchange for just one day of life value. Shouldn’t spending deduct money? Why use reputation points to offset it? And it’s redeemed instantly—this card is a bit weird.

Henry Foster came out of the bathroom, already dressed again in her bathrobe, her pretty face unable to hide her relief. She went to the paid area to get a sanitary pad, then went back in. It turned out the pregnancy was a false alarm, just a few days late, and at the critical moment, her period came—she’d luckily dodged a bullet.

Having resolved a major worry, Henry Foster quickly calmed down. She told William Bolton that today would be the last time they met. Of course, she also noticed his low spirits, thinking it was because she was breaking up with him. She had invested in this relationship too, but youthful impulsiveness always loses to reality. Having graduated from the Communication University, she had already been hired by Pingjiang Provincial TV, while William Bolton had failed his graduate entrance exams and had no future prospects. For the sake of her future, she had to make a clean break with him—everything would end today.

After Henry Foster left, feeling unburdened and relaxed, William Bolton dejectedly went to check out of the hotel. He more or less figured out the relationship between the card amount and reputation points: it was exactly a two-to-one ratio. In other words, for every one yuan he spent, two reputation points were deducted. In this short time, he had already spent over 20,000 reputation points. If 20,000 reputation points could be exchanged for two days of life, it meant that just by booking a room, he’d lost two days of his life. The cost-effectiveness was way too low, and the key point was—he hadn’t even accomplished anything!

William Bolton realized that all the bragging he did at the wealth ranking awards ceremony had come true. He had exchanged Asia’s top wealth and his own life for his family’s safety, and now he only had a pitiful three years of life left.

On second thought, it wasn’t impossible to live a long life. As long as he could get enough reputation points, he could exchange them for enough life value. He could easily live to a hundred, maybe even achieve immortality. It was both an opportunity and a challenge.

Passing by the talent market, he saw a big red banner at the entrance, and a job fair was being held inside.

William Bolton was a recent university graduate. With a “let’s give it a try” attitude, he went in to take a look, focusing on employers related to his major. Many media companies from Pengcheng had booths. He was a student from the Broadcasting Department of Pengcheng Normal University’s School of Media, so he should have some professional advantage. But when he went to ask, no one even bothered to look at him.

His so-called Pengcheng Normal University’s School of Media was just an ordinary third-tier college, privately run and public welfare in nature, not even on their radar.

After wandering around the talent market, he saw a booth for a newspaper. It was a county-level paper, with a tiny booth and just a roll-up banner that read “Gefeng Morning News is hiring talented individuals.” A middle-aged man in shabby clothes was dozing at the table. All the other booths were bustling, but his was deserted—clearly, this unit wasn’t popular.

Equally unpopular, William Bolton walked over, smiling at the middle-aged man. “Sir, are you hiring here?”

The middle-aged man yawned and squinted at him. “Looking for a job?”

William Bolton nodded. He had a good appearance—1.79 meters tall, handsome, with sharp features and a bright, sunny smile.

The middle-aged man was Brian Turner, head of HR at Gefeng Morning News. Gefeng Morning News was just a small county paper. In recent years, print media had been struggling, and over 300 county-level newspapers had been streamlined or shut down by the state. Gefeng Morning News was lucky to survive, but in the increasingly fierce market competition, it was getting harder and harder to stay afloat. Attracting talent had become the paper’s top priority.

But with their conditions, it was hard to attract truly high-level talent. On the contrary, anyone with a bit of ability was leaving. Now the paper was facing a talent gap, and development had become extremely difficult. As the editor-in-chief put it, it was a matter of life and death.

William Bolton briefly introduced himself to Brian Turner, who became quite interested and asked him to bring his personal documents. If his introduction was true, he could sign a formal contract today.

William Bolton was overjoyed and, without hesitation, immediately invited Brian Turner to dinner, hoping to strike while the iron was hot and sign the contract that evening. Based on his past experience, ninety percent of deals were made at the dinner table. Sure enough, that night at dinner, after reviewing his documents, a tipsy Brian Turner signed the employment contract right there at the table.

William Bolton took the contract and, slightly tipsy, headed home. At last, he had something to report to his mother—no more being scolded as a useless freeloader. In fact, he didn’t feel much of a sense of belonging to this family he’d been reborn into, and he was eager to change his environment.