Liao was employed at First Commercial Bank [zh] and resigned to focus on his graduate studies at National Taiwan Sport University.
[3] Liao competed at the 2000 Asian Weightlifting Championships in Osaka, where he set three national records though did not medal in any of the events.
[5] Liao represented Taoyuan during a 69kg weightlifting competition at the National Games of Taiwan [zh] in 2005.
Despite having largely become a coach before the competition, he participated in the National Games to earn prize money and for the honor.
The newspaper Min Sheng Bao reported in 2004 that the couple had one daughter and that Zhu was pregnant with their second child.