I Married the President

Chapter 480: Chapter 480: Merits Fulfilled, A Worthwhile Journey

”I don’t want people to say I’m feigning pity or being a phoney good Samaritan,” Leonard Bishop said. ”Plus, it wouldn’t be good for the man if this airs on the show later.”

The cameraman thought that made a lot of sense, but he still had to film. So, he focused only on Leonard Bishop and kept the weathered man out of the shot.

When Leonard Bishop saw he was still filming, he turned his back to the camera and made a call. ”Bro, how much money do I have right now?”

”Let’s put the next album on hold for now. I probably won’t get a good ranking here anyway, so we’ll figure something out later. Just transfer all the money to me. I need it urgently.”

”Don’t ask what it’s for. We can always make more money later. If I can’t, it just means I’m not cut out for this business.”

”Okay, I get it. In a minute, add this number on WeChat, and I’ll send you my bank card number...”

After the call, Leonard Bishop quickly received a large sum of money. He then took the weathered man back to the hospital.

The cameraman followed him the whole way, but Leonard Bishop eventually shooed him away to protect the privacy of the man’s family.

By the time he came out of the hospital, night had completely fallen.

Leonard Bishop heaved a long sigh of relief and said to the cameraman, ”Let’s go. Mission accomplished. This trip wasn’t a waste.”

The cameraman asked, ”How much money did you lend him?”

”Not much. Just a few tens of thousands.”

”But I saw I received a million in my account, and I only spent 890,000.”

”Don’t touch the rest of my money. I have another urgent use for it.”

”What for?”

Leonard Bishop was silent for a long while before finally saying, ”We’ll see.”

The cameraman didn’t understand what he meant, so he dropped it.

When they returned to the camp that day, many of the contestants had received fairly high scores. Only a few had gotten single-digit scores, and Leonard Bishop was the only one with a zero.

Surprisingly, the other contestants who received single-digit scores were also some of the most popular ones.

The top contenders had suddenly become the ones at the bottom, a result many found unbelievable.

Afterwards, the production team interviewed them.

Among them was Liam Linden, who had only scored two points. Facing the production team’s interview, he smiled nonchalantly. ”Professor Sinclair was right about one thing: a phony performance just disgusts people. Even I find this sort of thing repulsive. I couldn’t bring myself to do it.”

Another contestant said, ”There’s no particular reason. I just didn’t want to do something like that. You can say I’m not trying hard enough, but don’t say I’m not a kind person. I just don’t think kindness should be put on display like this. It’s too fake, and that makes it meaningless.”

Yet another contestant said, ”My mom used to always tell me, ’Son, you have to be a good person. You know what a good person is? It’s just someone who doesn’t do bad things.’ I think that makes perfect sense. I’m a good person, not a bad one.”

The producer: ”...”

In any case, the fourth moral assessment concluded just like that.

Claire Sinclair and the three other mentors stayed up all night watching the videos of the thirty-five contestants. In the end, each of them selected one contestant who had ”made a significant contribution to society.”

Claire Sinclair, without a shred of doubt, chose Leonard Bishop. No reason given.

After a full day of work, she returned to her hotel room to find Adrian Quincy already in bed.

Claire Sinclair shook him awake and asked him a very serious question. ”Tell me, right now. What is good, and what is bad?”

”Good... is ’go’ and ’od.’ Bad... is ’b’ and ’ad.’”

”...”

Adrian Quincy pulled her into his arms. ”Claire, let’s sleep. Whatever it is, we can talk about it in the morning.”

”Okay.” Claire obediently closed her eyes.

Early the next morning, Claire Sinclair rushed to the production studio. Adrian Quincy, that ”man of leisure,” tagged along to continue his set visit.