His father was a swimmer and volleyball player in his youth, his healthy and active lifestyle encouraged Liu to workout regularly and body build his physique during his late teens.

[1] Liu has said one of the reasons he entered show business is because he often felt over shadowed by his father and older sister who both hold higher college degrees than him.

[citation needed] During Liu's senior year in University, he entered the "2008 Eelin Male Model Search" contest which he came in 3rd place.

[6] In 2011 his modeling career took off after starring as "Mei Nam" in the 2011 idol drama In Time with You where he had to perm his naturally straight hair into short curls.

Soon he was known for his signature curly hair which resembled the top of a broccoli head giving him the nickname "Village Chief of Broccoli Village" and quickly became a popular male model in demand in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea, walking the runways for major fashion designers and appearing in magazines such as FHM, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar Magazine, and GQ.

[7] After playing non-credited roles and starring in micro films Liu's big break came in 2011, when he starred in the minor supporting role as "Mei Nam" in the popular GTV drama In Time with You, playing a high school classmate to lead actors Ariel Lin and Bolin Chen.

In 2013, Liu landed his first male leading role in PTS's critically acclaimed and award-nominated drama The Patisserie with No Name as "Allen", a stranded backpacker, who accidentally stumbles into a small French pastry shop while trying to recover his stolen belongings and then requests to stay at the pastry shop by working for room and board.

when he starred as a foreign exchange high school student in one episode of NTV's franchised mystery drama, Kindaichi Case Files.

His acting career as a leading man continued to rise in 2014 when he signed with Taiwan cable network Sanlih E-Television to star in their dramas.

Liu's first project with Sanlih was 2014's SETTV's romantic comedy Pleasantly Surprised, opposite Taiwanese model, singer and actress Puff Kuo.

Wanting to go for a more mature look, he cropped off his signature curly hair for his role as "Louis Fu Zi Jie", a skilled French chef who returns home, reconnects and falls in love with his childhood friend "Du Kai Qi", played by Kuo.

The movie is about a young girl played by Huang Peijia, who enters a billiards competition in order to pay off her family debt.

The day after Pleasantly Surprised wrapped up filming, Liu attended a press conference on October 14, 2014, for his new drama I Am Sorry, I Love You that is being developed and produced by Chinese web streaming company Tudou.

After months of hiatus from filming, he finally took on the role of a hot-tempered and talented Indie band vocalist, "Rex" in web-series "Lost?

According to news reports, 500 tickets were sold out in 10 minutes and hundreds of Korean fans greeted him in the airport, proving his popularity in South Korea.

Set in 1997 Taiwan, the film revolves around a group of high school schoolmates who formed The Moon Band and the last few nights before their graduation day.

A few days after the completion of his movie, Liu enters a new role, playing as a well-established music producer that's on a decline, Yan Dong Ming in Taiwanese romantic idol drama My Goddess.

After its release on 31 May 2019, it generated huge online buzz across Mainland China and in Taiwan for its controversial and unconventional plot where both leads fall in love with each other despite having significant others.

[26][27] The same year, he co-starred with actress Eugenie Liu in the Netflix second Mandarin original series Triad Princess, which was released in December 2019.

[28] In late October 2019, filming for Chinese Republican fantasy drama Twelve Legends began, in which he plays the male lead, Jin Xing Jian, originally an ordinary rock who displays characteristics of a deity as well as a demon.

[30][31] When not modeling or acting, Liu is the guitarist for popular Taiwanese indie band Morning Call, signed to and managed by Eelin Entertainment.

[33] Liu released the full version of A Kind of Sorrow, the theme song of film More Than Blue as a digital single on his birthday, August 12, 2019, under Pourquoi Pas Music record label, marking his debut as a solo singer.

[citation needed] Liu has two brown furred Canaan dogs, named "Yellow" and "Yeahbe", that he often shared pictures on his social media.