Secret Admiration: Finding True Love After Prison

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Rachel's smile froze in an instant.

The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. At that moment, she felt a tightness in her chest, tears threatening to spill over.

"How is it possible that both awards went to Meryl?"

She couldn't wrap her head around it, convinced that there must have been some mistake on the organizers' part.

It was unprecedented for the special award and first place to be the same piece-why was Meryl receiving both?

Rachel was sure her arrangement was solid. Just a moment ago, she had sneakily checked the online voting results and saw she was consistently in the top three. There was no way she could walk away empty-handed!

Meanwhile, Meryl was still in a daze, completely taken aback that she was the one being honored.

She thought, "What a twist of fate! I was just going with the flow, and now look at this!"

Confused, Meryl instinctively glanced at her mentor, Harvey, who was seated among the judges.

He gave her a thumbs-up, a warm smile lighting up his face, It

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Meryl felt a wave of relief wash over her.

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She mused, "Harvey rarely praises anyone; his approval must mean my piece really struck a chord, especially since it was chosen by both the judges and the audience." The ceremony continued, and a staff member gestured for Meryl to step onto the stage.

All cameras turned to capture her expression.

The award presenter was Casey, a big name in the music industry. Just having him as a judge was a major coup for the competition.

The excitement in the room was palpable, with the livestream hitting a staggering 30 million viewers.

Casey, dressed sharply in a tailored suit, presented the trophy to Meryl, his fingers gently placing it in her hands.

"Congratulations!"

This was Meryl's first real interaction with Casey.

of his assistants, but now, seeing the music prodigy

take the

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snatching the

were high too-why is she the one winning,

before the staff had invited Meryl to

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claim the special award, she was confident she had

flared as she presented a piece of paper to the camera,

having snatched

zooming in on

the venue shifted; judges whispered among themselves, and

the livestream into a spectacle, leaving the host

to the committee, any work found to be

mind racing. The moment

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"plagiarism," the murmurs in the

comments, the screen filling up rapid-fire

with

God, and I just voted

In such a big

she could get away with this? Plagiarists should

beneath her, but she quickly steeled

say it's plagiarism doesn't make it

a post on Twitter a couple of days ago with a piece that

decision, you're disqualified, and we reserve the right to pursue

of the original piece

so familiar-it's

A competition this big, and they let a

being accused? Does she think

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of this piece! Is it wrong to adapt my own work for this competition?], Sure, it

this loophole, which gave her the audacity to enter the

opened her Twitter feed, revealing a post she

"no name" account that had raised

stealing her work, causing quite a ruckus and leading many to rethink their support for "Sweet Savage." [Well, sure, it seems a bit iffy, but if