[4] After completing high school at 17, Lee enrolled at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire to study classical piano and later obtained a Bachelor of Music.
[4][5] In 2007, she achieved a Licentiate in Piano Solo from Trinity College London,[6][7] and was mentored by Chinese pianist Li Yundi in Munich, Germany, during several summers.
[4] In 2010, while performing at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur, she caught the attention of Fan Bingbing's agent, who offered her a contract with GME [zh] as an artist.
[8] In 2014, she was cast as Jing Jing, a lead role and the younger half-sister with a strained relationship with Nick Cheung's character, in the Hong Kong-Malaysian horror film Hungry Ghost Ritual and garnered public recognition.
[13][14] In 2021, Lee received significant public backlash after making comments on women's physique in an Instagram story that were widely perceived as body-shaming.