In 2008, she played a customer of a rouge store in Painted Skin. 2009, she played Zhang Liang Di in The Secret History of Yang Guifei[4]. 2011, she played Yunmei in Painted Wall, and Chu Shao-yin in Falling in Love with Chameleon. She also appeared in "The Strange Case of the Twelve Constellations"[5], "Marry a One-Hundred-Percent Man", and the Vinda microfilm "Bobo's Spell".

In 2012, she appeared in Crying and Laughing as Lili; in November, she starred in the TV series New Full Moon Machete, in which Liu Yan played the role of Qin Keqiang, a woman who is a flirtatious woman, and who is willing to use her beauty to toy with the men of the jianghu to help her lover, Liu Ruosong (played by Liu Jun), to achieve the supremacy of the martial arts world. [6] Appeared in Shanghai Xinhai Film and TV's The Woman in the Bread Tree as Fei Anna [7]. [7] She played the third daughter, Shen Zi, in Mother-in-Law's Happy Life [8]. In the TV series, Ye Jing played the male lead Zhu Yishan and Liu Yan played Shen Zi as a sweet couple. [8] appeared in "loser men", in the microfilm "gray machine gray machine" as Xiaomei [9]; November 17, appeared in the TV series "melon seven brothers", the drama Liu Yan played "ten thousand people" Liu Xiaoyan [10], beyond the color upgrade enchanting, dressed in a nurse outfit against the losers a piece of excellent completion of the " The mission is to subvert the imagination of screenwriter Yin Qi and director Huang Kai. [10] In the spring of 2012, Liu Yan appeared in the reasoning thriller movie "Evaporation" [2], and Lydia Zhong, Li Cansen cooperation as the lead role. 2013 starred in the Liaoning Satellite TV Spring Festival Gala sketches "Big Writer Attack", in the Oriental Satellite Television Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Snake hosts and starred in the "losers are you happy". She also appeared in the movie "Little God Comes" as Dai Yi Yi. Appeared in the movie "Little God came" in the role of single mother. [11] Participated in the filming of "The Four Famous Fishers 2", in which she played the role of "Ruyi Yan", with her cold face, lonely eyes and the charm of playing with people in the palm of her hand, which was interpreted by Liu Yan, and many netizens have praised her. [12] Participated in the filming of the movie "Evaporation" [13], playing the role of Gaga in the drama [2]. Appeared in the TV series Let's Get Married, playing the role of Lan Weiwei in the movie. [3]