The fact that she could say something like this shows that this Miss Fan has also been pampered by her family growing up. She doesn't know the difference between 'being the decision-maker' and 'living under someone else's roof.'
Nanyang County is far inferior to the Capital City, but in Nanyang County, Jiang Shaohua can act recklessly, doing whatever she wants. She needn't care about anyone else's opinion when speaking or acting.
No matter how nice the palace is, to the two of them, it isn't their home. As imperial family members, though bearing the same surname Jiang as the Princess, their status is significantly different.
If they could, they wouldn't want to stay in the palace. Unfortunately, they never had the right to choose.
These things are fine to say in private between the two of them, but it's absolutely forbidden to say in front of Jiang Bao Hua. All they could do was smile at each other.
