'' in November 2020 In 2020, Chen auditioned and won her breakout role as Bei-bei, a deaf teenage girl who was sexually assaulted by her classmates, in the featured film
The Silent Forest. In preparation for her role, Chen spent three months learning
sign language. Her performance, which conveyed tension and a sense of tragedy without dialogue, garnered positive acclaim, and she won
Best New Performer in the
57th Golden Horse Awards and Best New Talent in the
23rd Taipei Film Awards with the role. She joined the shoot of
Little Big Women five days after filming wrapped up for
The Silent Forest. In 2021, Chen landed her first major television role as A Ni, the female protagonist and a deviant schoolgirl who unexpectedly triggered a series of time-traveling incidents in a car accident, in the mystery thriller series ''''. She also appeared in a recurring role as a pregnant schoolgirl forced to abort her child at her mother's request in the sci-fi series '''', and had a minor role as 's character's daughter in the crime thriller series ''
. Chen also starred as the lead actress in the opening short film Be My Quarantine'' at the
2021 Kaohsiung Film Festival, and in the music video of
Oaeen's "Honey Ginseng" alongside
Miao Ke-li. In 2022, Chen took on a recurring role as Wen, a mute girl confined by
Lee Kang-sheng's character in a dungeon since a young age in the fantasy series ''
. She received nominations for both Best New Actress and Best Supporting Actress in the 4th Asia Contents Awards with the role. Chen was cast in another lead role as Zoe Chao, the innocent daughter of a presidential candidate who gets dragged into a political scandal, in the 2023 Netflix political thriller series Wave Makers, starring alongside Hsieh Ying-xuan, Jag Huang, Gingle Wang, and Leon Dai. Her performance was well received, for which she won the Rising Star of the Year and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 5th Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT Awards. She also appeared alongside her The Silent Forest
co-star Troy Liu in the second season of the Netflix crime series The Victims' Game'' as Hsiao Chia-ying, a runaway girl who steals a bus with her friends to escape her parents' control, and her performance received critical acclaim. The same year, Chen appeared as the lead actress in the drama film
The Uniform, which premiered at the
Busan International Film Festival. She also starred in lead roles in the Netflix series
Agent from Above and
Million-Follower Detective. == Personal life ==