I think you came up with something highly plausible (and we could come up with other possibilities), but I wonder how long their purported arc will be. Luxi's mom is written in a way where she's very isolated and seems to have no one besides Luxi, whereas the mom friendship hasn't been going on very long and had its trust severely damaged. Reestablishing the friendship without false pretenses seems like it should be its own arc, while I don't think the author will want to spend too much time away from Luxi / Tong Tong. Unless the author is going to make most of that happen off screen and surprise the MCs, I would expect it take more than one arc.
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