I don't think it was. I was just going to ask about the MC/Ashnold's name because it felt like they were setting up that the two would've been connected (even mildly) prior to reincarnation. But this chapter and the end of last chapter are the first absolute confirmations that Yuri is...
I don't see why you should stop.
1) They got banned from here. What they want is irrelevant here.
2) They're a scummy paywall group, fuck 'em.
All they had to do was not paywall all their content and they'd be able to stick around here and keep uploading. But they got greedy. They did this...
Just once I'd like a villain who actually feels smart instead of being so obviously evil and stupid and whose plan boils down to "I think this is best and I'm smart because I'm powerful and it'll work."
Let me guess: They met when they were younger and the FMC was lovestruck from the very beginning, but the dense MMC forgot all about it and now we're going to get 50 chapters of "nah, there's no way a popular, pretty girl could be into me. I shouldn't get so full of myself." denial until the...
Yeah, but you gotta tick those boxes. And "MC saves a character who it turns out is super famous/popular/important" is a definite box. Only alternative would've been if she was a princess or something.
I appreciate them taking photos in landscape orientation rather than holding their phones vertically/portrait orientation for photography like some sort of heathens.