As a result, Wan was left without mother or children in Taiwan, and he felt depressed. At his friend's suggestion, he went to Thailand, Singapore, and Malaysia on vacation. Then his recording company arranged for him to take a foreign passport so that he could make a tour of mainland China. With the cross-strait political situation of that era, he didn't dare come back to Taiwan.
由於事業不如意加上母親與子女都不在身邊，心情鬱悶，在朋友建議下前往泰國、新加坡與馬來西亞等地散心，而後在唱片公司安排下，持外國護照到大陸巡迴演唱，但囿於當時兩岸政治因素，不敢回台，也和前往美國的小孩失去聯絡。