![]() ![]() ![]() She kept her dark hair short and layered, and the layers flew in. Her toned body was the product of weekend workouts at the gym and almost ten years of Taekwondo lessons. Before she could get to her feet though, Hyeon Jin was already pulling her up by the collar of her school uniform."Are you telling me that you're actually dumb enough to lose something considerably bigger than your brain?!" she asked, shaking her off with incredible force.Although Hyeon Jin was a mere 16-year-old, her posture and physique epitomized dominance and she had an aura of exceptional arrogance. An aerial shot taken on Sunday, May 2, 2021, shows the ongoing construction works of the third terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune Passenger handling capacity will double. She was a couple of feet shorter than Hyeon Jin, with long, wild hair and a strawberry nose that was getting redder by the minute due to the cold wind."YOU WHAT?" Hyeon Jin bellowed, the vein in her forehead throbbing madly.The bespectacled freshman jumped back a couple of steps in terror, tripped on a rock, and fell flat on her butt. I lost it." she mumbled incoherently, shaking from head to foot. ![]()
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