This event was to have enormous impact upon Taiwanese politics, and Lu was spurred to get involved in politics herself in order to use political power to correct the ills of society. In order to struggle for women's rights and democracy, she cut her studies short and returned to Taiwan in 1978 to run for the National Assembly.
這次她碰到的是影響台灣政治命運至鉅的「中美斷交」事件，也促使她下決心參政，以政治的力量來改變社會不合理的種種包括爭取婦女權益和台灣民主。