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.

she had borrowed a string from him through one of his assistants, but now, seeing the music prodigy up close, she was struck by how approachable he seemed.

to take the trophy, no one expected

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front of Meryl, snatching the microphone from her hands and addressing

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

Meryl to the stage, Rachel

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claim the special award, she

a piece of paper to the

shouted, having snatched

were on Rachel, cameras zooming in on her face,

in the venue shifted; judges whispered among themselves, and the audience murmured

spectacle, leaving the host visibly startled. She stepped

piece did score highly, but according to

The moment the

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murmurs in

live chat exploded with comments, the screen filling up

with

my God, and I just voted for

big

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

wobble beneath her, but

say it's plagiarism doesn't make

a couple of days ago with a piece that sounds a

disqualified, and we reserve the

the familiar melody of the original

why this sounds so familiar-it's almost the

A competition this big, and they let a plagiarist in? This turns everything on its

there after being

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work for this competition?], Sure, it was a 48-hour composition challenge, and the

gave her the audacity to enter the contest

prove her point, she pulled out her phone and opened her Twitter feed, revealing a post she had

the audience realized that the "no name" account

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