Li headed off for Yingko, the famous pottery town south of Taipei, but found no one willing to take him in as a student, so he returned to his old high school to use the facilities there, only to be run out. Withering criticism from family members and financial pressures shook his confidence, nearly nipping his career in the bud.
由於到鶯歌找不到學習機會、回學校工廠實習又被趕，創作理想也因家庭認知的差距而有所遲疑，許多目標因經濟負擔的壓力而產生迷惘，種種不順遂，使李幸龍尚未跨步便幾乎被迫出局。