Lin's first 2006 television series is titled Ancestral Temple. In this series, she has not only unchained the shackles of idol seriess but has also successfully played this brand-new role with depth and opened a new page for her acting career.After three months of filming in Huang Shan, China, the series was completed at the end of October 2006. Its release is unscheduled, but it has been said that it will be broadcasted CCTV 1 in 2008. On June 6, 2006, Lin won the Honorable Award of Taiwan's Most Popular Actress in the The 2nd Chinese TV Drama Award[24]ceremony in Beijing, China. And she has also been listed TOP 10 China artists many times in major and influential research polls. Those award results showed Ruby Lin as one of the most successful actresses in the contemporary Chinese acting industry.
At the end of 2006, Lin bid farewell to her agent company Zhong Jie after a 10 year relationship and quietly signed with Hua Yi Brothers Film and Television group . Hua Yi Brosis currently the largest management and domestic movie-making company in China. On 30 November 2006, in an extravagant ceremony, she officially signed with Hua Yi as her management company. News has reported that the fee for signing her was said to be over $10 million.After signing with the new company, she went to USA (LA & San Francisco) with her family for a vacation. Lin came back to China in the middle of January 2007. At the end of 2006, there were lots of rumors about her next work including Jackie Chan's new movie, but nothing has materialized even up to August.
Finally, in September 2007, she participated in filming CCTV's new historical TV drama Su DongPo as a guest star. In this TV series, she plays the first wife of Su Dongpo (A writer, poet, artist, calligrapher, pharmacologist, and statesman of the Song Dynasty, and one of the major poets of the Song era) who is played Lu Yi. This is their 3rd cooperation. After filming for 1 months, Ruby Lin starred in digital film Evening rose. It is scheduled to be broadcast possibly by the end of 2008. Recently, she co-starred with Ray Lui as Daji in The Legend and the Hero, also known as Feng Shen Bang , is one of the major Vernacular Chinese novels written in the Ming Dynasty.