In 2013, Zhou made her acting debut in the children's fantasy film Balala the Fairies: the Movie. She then starred in the youth film comedy 20 Once Again as a rock musician.
Zhou gained recognition as an adult actor for her role as a cold assassin in the 2015 fantasy romance drama Love Weaves Through a Millennium. Her first leading role was the following year, in the 2016 fantasy web drama The Journey. In 2017, Zhou gained recognition for her role as a top actress in the fantasy action web drama Cambrian Period. The same year, Zhou starred in fantasy romance drama Long For You, adapted from the comic "The Distance of Light Between You and Me". In 2018, Zhou played a mermaid in the fantasy romance web series My Love From the Ocean. In 2019, she starred in the youth wuxia drama Young Blood.
Swords Into Plowshares(2026)as Sun Taizhen
Every Dog Has Its Day(2025)
180 Tian Chong Qi Ji Hua(2025)
Big World(2024)as Yaya
In Between(2024)
Begin Again(2020)
Xiao Xiao de Wo Men(2025)
Wo Jia Na Gui Nv(2020)as Self
Happy Camp(1997)as Self