While most writers have been working at their craft their entire lives, Liao only started writing professionally after spending 13 years in the business world. She was in the cutthroat ad business, the industry with the sharpest sense of the public pulse. She dealt with every kind of person and situation imaginable, and came to a deep understanding about women and men.
和多數一生在文壇沈浮的作家不同，專職寫作前，廖輝英曾在競爭激烈、對社會脈動觸感最敏銳的廣告界工作了 13 年，接觸過各行各業的人，也看過各種光怪陸離的感情困境，她深切瞭解女人，也同樣瞭解男人。