[5] In 2017, he participated in the casting of the youth campus web series My Huckleberry Friends and auditioned for the male lead, Lin Yang, but ultimately failed.
[18] On October 1, 2020, the song "My Motherland", a tribute to the 71st anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China sung by Lin Yi together with other artists, was released.
[4] On January 26, 2022, the web series Memory of Encaustic Tile was aired on Youku, in which Lin Yi co-stars with Chen Yuqi and plays the role of Zheng Su Nian.
[23] On April 2, the film One Week Friends was released, in which he co-stars with Zhao Jinmai and Shen Yue and plays Xu You Shu.
[25] On December 14, the time-travel and suspense web series Derailment was aired on Youku, with Lin Yi co-starring with Liu Haocun and portraying Qi Lian.
[27] On June 8, the TV series The Tale of Rose starring Liu Yifei was broadcast, in which Lin Yi plays He Xi, a young pilot whom the heroine has a crush on.
[28] He has completed filming for the series Smile Code with Shen Yue and Ski into Love with Esther Yu, which are highly anticipated by the public.