Chapter 14: Cohabitation?

  Los Angeles is a city located in the southern part of California on the West Coast of the United States. Ranked by population, Los Angeles is the largest city in California and the second-largest in the United States, after New York City. It is also one of the world's centers of culture, science, technology, international trade, and higher education, with numerous world-renowned institutions in various professional and cultural fields.

  Located on the west coast of North America, Los Angeles has a typical Mediterranean climate, with hot and dry summers and mild and rainy winters. In the evening, a light rain fell from the sky above Los Angeles, washing away the city's dust, but the rain did not bring any adverse effects to the bustling city of Los Angeles, instead adding a beautiful landscape to it.

  Today, after Song Tang finished filming his scenes for the day, he drove his own Cadillac luxury sedan with Jessica in it, slowly heading towards the Song family villa. Although the rain under the sky was small, it still inevitably had an impact on the driver. In the United States, this highly developed capitalist country, traffic management is very strict, such as: in the United States, if a police officer suspects that a driver is driving after drinking, he can arrest him on the spot. If a drunk driving accident occurs, the punishment is even more severe.

  Although Song Tang had already experienced the taste of life disappearing once, he became more precious about his own life. So, although it was drizzling in the sky, Song Tang drove the car at a moderate speed and chatted with Jessica from time to time, trying to ease her tense mood.

  Song Tang turned his head to look at the girl sitting in the passenger seat, today Jessica was dressed in a black suit and white shirt with a bow tie around her neck, which made her look more mature and sexy than usual. Her brown hair was casually draped over her shoulders, adding to her charm.

  Song Tang looked at Jessica, who was getting a bit flustered due to nervousness, and couldn't help but find the ceremony amusing. Seeing that they were about to arrive at their own doorstep, Song Tang hastily comforted Jessica, lest she be found out by her elders at a critical moment, "Jessica, relax a bit, be natural, just treat it like you're acting in a movie!"

  Hearing Song Tang's comforting words, Jessica glared at him with a bad temper, took two deep breaths, and relieved her tense mood.

  After parking the car, Song Tang and Jessica walked out of the car door. Song Tang glanced at Jing Ying standing beside him, pretending to be nonchalant, and smiled mischievously. He then made a gesture of putting his arm around her shoulders, looking very pleased with himself, and nodded towards Jessica, implying "come over and put your arm in mine, lest we reveal our true intentions later".

  Jessica didn't want to agree with Song Tang at first, but after a glance, she walked over to Song Tang's side and naturally crossed her arm over his.

  "Ah..." Just as Jessica hugged Song Tang's arm, a soft sensation suddenly came from his arm, and Song Tang couldn't help but think: This little girl is really good at tempting people.

  "Doesn't it feel great?" Just then, Jessica's gentle and elegant voice came into Song Tang's ears.

  "Ah!" He had just finished speaking, but immediately afterwards Song Tang regretted it, because at this time he felt a sharp pain coming from his waist. It was truly painful yet delightful. However, Song Tang did not dare to retort and could only silently endure the pain coming from his waist.

  Fortunately, Jessica knew the severity of the situation and let Song Tang off. Seeing this, Song Tang couldn't help but feel secretly delighted, so he gently pulled out his arm and wrapped it around Jessica's waist to make them look more like a couple.

  Just as Song Tang wrapped his arms around Jessica's waist, Jessica, who had never been so intimate with a man before, stiffened for a moment, but then relaxed, which made Song Tang secretly delighted again.

  For Song Tang's "shameless" behavior, Jessica glared at him fiercely with her eyes, but ultimately acquiesced and let Song Tang put his arm around her waist.

  "Ding Dong!"

  As Song Tang pressed the doorbell, Liu Ying, who was muttering to herself about how Song Tang had not returned yet, opened the large door of the room for Song Tang.

  As the door opened, all that entered Liu Ying's eyes was: her own son holding a girl in black business attire. Liu Ying took a closer look and found that the girl, with the support of high heels, wasn't much shorter than her own son. More importantly, the girl's slender body was full and sensual, with brown skin complementing her delicate facial features, and a head of brown hair casually scattered over her shoulders. "My son has good taste!" This was Liu Ying's first impression upon seeing Jessica, and that gaze seemed to be sizing up her own daughter-in-law.

  "Hello! Are you Mrs. Song? You're really beautiful!" Jessica saw that the one who opened the door was a middle-aged woman in her forties, although she wasn't young anymore, but she took good care of herself. She wore a housewife's outfit, but it couldn't hide her noble beauty. The clever Jessica immediately knew who the person was. Seeing Song Tang's tense gaze at herself, she quickly came out of Song Tang's arms and greeted Liu Ying.

  Liu Ying, who was admiring her son's eyesight, heard the clear greeting from the girl beside her son. So Liu Ying grabbed the girl's hand and walked towards the living room, saying to Jessica: "Ah! Hello, you must be Jessica that Tang Er mentioned! You're really beautiful, I'm old now."

  "Hehe, yes! Auntie, has Song mentioned me to you? I'm Jessica Alba. You don't look old at all, if Song hadn't often mentioned you to me, I would have thought you were Song's sister." Jessica felt at ease seeing Liu Ying being so warm and friendly, and she didn't feel the initial nervousness of entering the house.

  Song Tang saw his mother in such a state, and he was convinced that Jessica was indeed his daughter-in-law. For a moment, he didn't know whether it was right or wrong to let Jessica pretend to be his daughter-in-law. Thinking of this, Song Tang sighed: Alas! Everything is up to fate!

  Song Tang saw Jessica being pulled away by her mother, so he didn't bother to explain anything anymore. He said goodbye to his father and grandfather, washed up a bit, and started waiting for dinner.

  During this time, Jessica couldn't help but be scrutinized by Song Tang's father and grandfather when she greeted them. Her thin face turned bright red with embarrassment. In short, although Jessica is a typical Westerner, and the two elderly men in the Song family were influenced by traditional ideas and hoped their son would marry a Chinese woman, they were still very satisfied with Jessica's beauty and charm when they saw her.

  In the evening, Song's family banquet was probably because the elders of the Song family did not want to lose face in front of their son's girlfriend, so dinner was very sumptuous, with both Chinese and Western dishes, which made Song Tang enjoy a great treat!

  However, with Jessica's arrival, Song Tang, who was originally particularly favored, has now become Jessica, and as a result, Song Tang now has to pick up all the dishes by himself, which makes him feel very resentful for a while.

  After dinner, Song Tang's mother started pulling Jessica and the two of them began to talk about family matters. Old man Song Yuanqiao also started talking about his glorious deeds in front of this little "daughter-in-law", which made Song Tang and his father roll their eyes on the side, but they didn't dare to speak out.

  When Song Tang's mother Liu Ying asked where Jessica lived, Jessica looked at Song Tang twice before stuttering out the current place of residence.

  "What? You're letting a young girl like Jessica rent a place by herself, how can that be okay. Tang Er, you really are something, how could you let Jessica live alone outside, it's so unsafe." Liu Ying complained to Song Tang after hearing this.

  Song Tang thought to himself: Do you think Los Angeles is still the same as it was decades ago? Besides, I wasn't even close to Jessica before! However, Song Tang only thought this in his heart. He had no words to respond with.

  "Auntie, this has nothing to do with Song, it's my own decision." Jessica said hastily.

  "Haha, it's okay if Auntie didn't know before, but now that she knows, how can you still live outside? From now on, you'll just have to live at my place, anyway we have plenty of rooms!"

  Liu Ying's words made Song Tang and Jessica both stunned. This is still tolerable, if they lived together, wouldn't everything be exposed? So the two tacitly denied: "No way!"

  "Why not?"

  "What's wrong?" Liu Ying's one sentence stopped both of them.

  Finally, Song Tang's mother said a few words, and with the encouragement of Song Tang's grandfather, Jessica was unable to leave after all, and Song Tang also had to face the happy "cohabitation" life from now on!