I’m the person who asked about the fake item last time.

Your incredibly kind answer really put my mind at ease. Thank you so much. I’m sorry this is getting long, so I’ll start by grouping my two questions together. ① In papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan), there are people with somewhat difficult personalities, regardless of gender, right? I feel that a certain amount of patience is necessary in those situations, but what do you all think? ② I understand that everyone has different arrangements, but if the allowance is 70,000 yen for one overnight stay, would it normally be 420,000 yen for six nights over the course of a week? Looking at it by the month, I had already received quite a lot, so I couldn’t bring it up myself and simply accepted whatever the other person gave me. I received 200,000 yen for two nights and 200,000 yen for three nights. Of course, this person is a good one, and I’ve also had people who paid the same allowance whether it was one, two, or three nights. I’ve been doing this for quite a while now, so I feel I’ve gained a certain amount of experience. In other words, I think a relationship can continue as long as you can tolerate the other person to some extent. This applies regardless of gender, of course, but at least with men who have particularly strong quirks, the longer you put up with them, the longer the relationship tends to last—because other women give up. Men with fewer quirks tend to be popular with many women, so my impression is that there’s more competition. Ideally, I’d like to have one-on-one access to a man who has a lot of competition, of course. Since women are the ones receiving the allowance, men generally aren’t going to pay an allowance and deliberately endure being with a particularly difficult woman. So, in these situations, I assume that women are usually the ones expected to be patient. As for why I was deceived in the previous case involving the fake item, it was because the other person was fairly well-known as a business owner. Since he was undergoing the process for a potential stock listing, I thought he couldn’t do anything suspicious. I also felt as though I was being tested to see whether I was too focused on money, so I couldn’t cut things off right away. I even overanalyzed the situation, wondering whether he actually had money but was trying to weed out women who were too money-minded. Since the information was officially available, it didn’t seem to be a lie. Of course, I was completely put off when I received the fake item, but it’s true that I also had ulterior motives. There were many times when I felt he was probably lying, but I assumed that the period during which he was undergoing the stock-listing review was one when he couldn’t do anything strange, so I couldn’t fully bring myself to distrust him. Looking at the relationship overall, if I average things out based on how many times we met and how much time we spent together, I feel that I was still within a range I can forgive in terms of being exploited. So I’ve more or less given up on trying to recover the allowance I didn’t receive, especially since there were also times when we met for only a very short period. Sorry for the long post.