Here is the problem with how the dev is doing this game, he's giving the illusion of choice.
Not everyone is going to read back all these pages or check the devs patreon so they still think Ashley is a viable route.
Just a hint hun, she isn't.
Emily is the only one with an actual ending, Ashley is just a fuck buddy that won't go anywhere.
I think the dev needs to make that clearer in the game or people are going to get pissed. He told us early on so we know what's happening but, like I said, that was near the start of the thread and on his patreon.