Either way MC gets brutally dumped by either Gabi or Valeria.
How funny we agree completely on that one lol. I can already see Mr Bubu's Walkthrough: ---> End of Romance with Valeria OR End of Romance with Gabi OR End of Romance with Both.
Next episode will already have the MC dumped pretty much right away anyways. He has the possibility of a beach date with both Erynn and Valeria, both in the morning, so another path will close next update.
Which does now mean that Ximenia definitely knows MC is the "friend of a friend" that Valeria has a crush on and the guy Gabi is fucking. There's no way she does nothing in the Gabi and Valeria route now, as she still only thinks that Valeria has a crush on MC and it's not gone further the likelihood is that she'll try and warn Valeria off MC.
I think everyone way ovethinks everything.
My assumption is that the MC name is blackholed from memories and that some npcs are acting dumb is so that the dev wants to keep hidden the mystery of Valeria's mom identity until a cliffhanger, again to vreate massive drama out of a small situation.
Valeria's mom clearly knows the MC's name, what he looks like both from a photo and live from her car and she knows Zach and from how the talks go, she probably knows about all her entourage like Darryl, Tori, Layla, etc. So that would confirm it.
I think it will play just like that segment in which the MC has no clue Elena say she's into him at the beach, but in what i assume was 3 updates after, he just blurt that he knew but didn't want to make it weird. (Like, honestly, how would that be weird. Just fucking tell her and make it clear so the problems are solved, but Noooo! we need drama and -30 Layla points!!)