In 1963, Chiao married Huang Tsung-hsing, the following year Huang left for Hong Kong to join the Shaw Brothers Studio while Chiao remained in Taiwan to continue acting.
In 1966 Huang got into a car accident and Chiao moved to Hong Kong to look after him.
[2] There Chiao was invited to join the Shaw Brothers Studio, when she acted in the One-Armed Swordsman alongside Jimmy Wang Yu, which met with an unexpected success.
In 1972 she left the studio and briefly returned to Taiwan, where she made some television appearances.
In 1976 while Huang was riding a motorbike in Taiwan, he got into a second car accident, however this time he did not survive.