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Harvey frowned from the judges' panel at the front.

Casey leaned over and asked, "Mr. Herty, what's wrong?"

Harvey sipped from his thermos and replied, "Don't you think the 49th piece sounds a little familiar?"

Having just listened to the 50th piece, Casey had already forgotten the melody of the 49th.

He had someone replay the 49th track and listen to it twice. It did sound somewhat familiar, but he couldn't quite place where he'd heard it before.

Casey pulled out his phone and checked the livestream to see what people were saying.

The comments were flooding in quickly, and sure enough, some sharp-eared viewers had noticed something.

[Doesn't the 49th piece sound very similar to that melody trending on Twitter a few days ago? Just slightly modified.]

[Wasn't that piece accused of plagiarism?]

[So, the composer of the 49th piece is plagiarizing too?]

The 49th contestant had cleverly modified the piece, but experts

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could still instantly recognize that it was the same melody.

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Casey whispered to Harvey, "The rule is that compositions must be completed within 48 hours. If someone uses an old piece to compete, does that count as breaking the rules?" Harvey nodded.

Casey asked, "What if it's plagiarism?"

Harvey's face turned cold. "That's simple, disqualify them immediately!"

Casey handed him his phone. "Take a look at this."

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Christine sneaked out of the makeup room.

She had heard from Rachel that the 50th piece had been composed by Meryl, and that made her uneasy.

If Meryl won or ranked higher than her in the competition, Christine, as the principal cellist, would become a laughingstock in the orchestra.

take

the instrument storage area, where there was a staff member guarding

she was the 49th contestant, and the

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instrument. But as she passed Meryl's cello, she secretly used a

on the surface, but as soon as Meryl played, the

immediately, it would cause the instrument to be

carrying out the sabotage, Christine couldn't help

herself on stage, with all the judges watching, and

to see.

about it made Christine excited. She felt like she was eliminating

month, becoming a joke o everyone. This, she thought, was payback. Christine hummed as she walked

her curiously and asked, "What's got you

in the makeup room, so they could

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"Nothing much. I just took care of something important. The

her a knowing look. "It's almost time for you to

an hour for preparation; then, the performers took the stage in

attire, Meryl went

checking her instrument before performing to

cello down, one of the strings suddenly snapped

changed, and she instinctively

"Ouch..."

It hurt terribly.

the mirror, and there was a noticeable blood mark on the right side of her face, a scratch made by

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held her face for a while,

healing process. Instead, she let her hair down and

had replaced all the strings just a week before the competition, so it wasn't

the break in

friction;

her cello! They used something

now, the 49th

no time to think about who might have done

remind her to prepare

Meryl's expression grew serious.

was perfect, without the string, she couldn't

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a moment, she didn't know

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