Ok, so on my first playthrough I just didn't go to the greenhouses because it said they were off limits, even though there wasn't physically anything stopping me. This time I was very curious what I was missing, so I saved first (in case I decided I didn't care) then tried going there... that's essentially where the entirety of the game is (which in the game's current state, appears to be entirely female guards, or maybe I just never found any male ones). In a place where you're not supposed to be. So the intent is that the MC does something they're not supposed to do??? Though that does explain why the MC's dialogue suggests so much resistance. Maybe I'm not the intended audience for this game...