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.

assistants, but now, seeing the music prodigy up close, she was struck by how approachable he

prepared to take the trophy, no one

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the

something fishy going on with this competition! My scores were high too-why is she the one winning, let alone snagging two

invited Meryl to the stage, Rachel

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special award, she

emotions flared as she presented a piece of paper to

shouted, having snatched it from a staff member

Rachel, cameras zooming in on

whispered among themselves, and the audience murmured

the livestream into a spectacle, leaving the host visibly startled.

highly, but according to the committee, any work found to be

froze, her mind racing. The moment the

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murmurs in the

comments, the screen filling

with

Oh my God, and I

a big competition? This

really think she could get away with this? Plagiarists should get the boot from

wobble beneath her, but she quickly steeled

doesn't make it true. Where's

"There was a post on Twitter a couple of

disqualified, and we reserve the right to pursue this matter

familiar melody of the

sounds so familiar-it's almost the same, just

let a plagiarist in? This

being accused? Does she think we're

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to adapt my own work for this competition?], Sure, it was a 48-hour composition challenge, and

loophole, which gave her the audacity to enter the contest with

her Twitter feed, revealing a post she had made just

the audience realized that the "no name" account that had raised a stir online was

had accused Casey's junior fellow apprentice of 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 she's the one behind that no-name account and she's just adapting her own piece, it's not outright plagiarism, is