[6] Yin's subsequent performances in TV series The Sky of History, and Catching the Wrong Bus brought her into the limelight.
In 2010, she starred in historical drama The Firmament of The Pleiades, which became the first television series from China to be screened on Japan's NHK at prime time.
[16] In 2017, Yin won Magnolia Award for Best Actress in a Television Series for her performance in Feather Flies to the Sky.
[18] In 2004, Yin married Shen Juncheng (沈俊成), general manager of a communication company in Chongqing, and divorced the following year.
[5] In 2009, she met a wealthy businessman named Sun Donghai (孙东海) while filming The Legend of Yang Guifei, and the two broke up in 2010.
[5] Yin and Li Guangjie [zh] fell in love while filming the drama Romeo and Juliet, but later broke up.