At that time, she was just 27, just graduated from the Kaohsiung Medical College Department of Medicine, and had entered the Graduate School of Public Health at National Taiwan University to study for an MA. With her mother's encouragement she stood for the Legislative Yuan.
那時的她，年僅廿七歲，剛從高雄醫學院醫學系畢業，又到台灣大學公共衛生研究所念碩士，在母親的鼓勵下出馬競選立委。