after the eponymous road (CaoDong Street [zh]) in Shilin District, Taipei, where they often hung out; Lin would skateboard there while Chan would run alongside him, accompanying him to lose weight.
[2] Following a series of lineup changes which saw the departures of Lee and Huang, the remaining members decided to rename the band No Party for Cao Dong in 2014, and enlisted FUBAR frontman Sam Cheng and Leo Liu to fill the bass and drum spots respectively.
During this period, the band started to adopt a different attitude towards their later works and consider making music seriously, hence in early 2015, they recruited fellow Taipei National University of the Arts graduate Sam Yang to take Cheng's place on bass.
[citation needed] In 2016, the band released their first studio album, The Servile; shortly afterwards, it gained widespread attention among professional critics after they emerged as a dark horse in Taiwan's independent music scene.
[citation needed] No Party For Cao Dong hosted a livestream on their YouTube channel which took place once a day from May 20 to May 23 and featured live performers acting out a story, the course of which was chosen in real-time by the viewers in the chat, determining how the narrative would play out.
[13] On October 30, drummer Fan Tsai was found dead at the age of 26 at a quarantine hotel in Taipei City following the band's return from Mainland China where they conducted a concert tour.