Her father Jin Ye (金業) was a fairly wealthy farmer who was sonless, but who was known to have had a loving relationship with his wife.
Early in Wang Yan's Qiande era (918-924), she was selected to be a consort to him in the palace.
[1] In or after 921, when he effectively divorced and deposed his first wife Empress Gao by sending her back to the house of her father Gao Zhiyan (高知言),[2] he created Consort Jin as the new empress to replace her.
[1] When Former Shu fell to its northeastern neighbor Later Tang in 925, Wang Yan tried to entrust his wife — most likely referring to Empress Jin — and his mother Empress Dowager Xu to the care of the Later Tang official Li Yan (李嚴).
In 926, with the Later Tang realm engulfed in military mutinies, Later Tang's emperor Li Cunxu ordered the deaths of Wang Yan and his household;[3] Empress Jin was one member of the imperial household who died in the killing.