The ”Wild Lily” student sit-in in March 1990 was often praised in the latter political transformation process as a crucial moment wherein the ”pure and innocent” students facilitated democratization in Taiwan. From the perspective of a participant in the protest, the author argues that the sit-in was actually a failure of the ”popular democratic” wing of Taiwan's student movement in the 1980s, who championed a more radical vision of democracy. The idea of ”popular democracy” was an anti-elitist ideology arisen from critiques on the elite-led political reform movement. However, due to its historical constraint, practices along this line was unable to alter the bourgeois democratic character of 1980s democratization process in Taiwan.