But she also left the Kuomintang after the party refused to let her interpellate about the case of Chiayi County executive Li Mao-sung in the Provincial Assembly, and became one of the leading political independents at that time. In 1960 she was part of a group led by Lei Chen that tried to forma new opposition "China Democratic Party," giving the Kuomintang even more headaches.
但是她也曾為了國民黨不准她在省議會質詢嘉義縣長李茂松的停職案而聲明退黨，成為無黨籍大本營中的領導人物之一；民國四十九年與雷震等人共同籌組中國民主黨，更令國民黨十分頭痛。