Just some billions! 

Words like these could not fall from the lips of peasants. Even that was too much for boasting, wasn’t it?

It was a whole other matter when it was Shentu Tianyin saying it, however. No one would say that she was boasting because 5,000,000,000 was nothing to someone like her who had a net worth of close to 100,000,000,000. Think of it this way - If you had $1,000 in your pocket, would you be willing to spend $5 of it to help someone you liked? 

And Shentu Tianyin had said ‘give’, not ‘loan’.

She was willing to give Xia Lei 5,000,000,000!

A woman willing to give a man 5,000,000,000 - what did this prove? 

Tang Yuyan stood bitterly in the doorway of the private room; she had not left. She’d wanted to help Xia Lei too but could not in his time of need. The situation earlier was like a splash of cold water to her face. Tang Yuyan was from a powerful clan too but the rules of a clan hundreds of years old held all of the clan in a vice. Besides, she was just a woman. She still had an elder brother with higher standing so there was no way she could take 5,000,000,000 out of the Tang sect to help Xia Lei. She could never compete with Shentu Tianyin on that front. 

A wry smile...