She also starred in the lesbian-themed romance series Fragrance of the First Flower (2021–2024), and won Best Leading Actress in a Miniseries in the 57th Golden Bell Awards with her performance in the first season.

[5][8] In 2010, Lin made her acting debut in Hsiao Ya-chuan's drama film Taipei Exchanges, starring alongside Gwei Lun-mei.

[14] In 2014, Lin played the female lead in the drama film Anywhere Somewhere Nowhere [zh],[15] and appeared as the best friend of Ella Chen's character in the television series The Lying Game.

[16] She then starred in Penguins at North Pole, Taiwan's first homosexual family comedy, as a woman romantically involved with another protagonist played by Nikki Hsieh.

[17] The same year, she also made cameo appearances in Apple in Your Eye, a TTV series and the latest project of An Innocent Mistake's writer Mag Hsu [zh], as lead actress Amber An's high school classmate,[18] as well as a news anchorwoman in the French sci-fi film Lucy directed by Luc Besson.

[27] In 2021, Lin landed a lead role as Yi-ming, a married woman who reunites with a former romantic interest played by Lyan Cheng, in the lesbian-themed romance series Fragrance of the First Flower [zh].

[35] The partners raised their son together and lived in Hualien County,[36][37] but they did not marry, with Lin describing them as in an open relationship and stating that they had no plans for marriage.