2012–present: Movies and critical success

In 2012, Chiu starred in a horror film with Vilma Santos entitled The Healing. She played a woman who is
cured of glomerulonephritis through a healer but must suffer a curse. From this film, she received a
number of Best Supporting Actress nominations from almost all of the film award-giving bodies, missing
only the Gawad Urian and The Young Critics' Circle.[27]

Chiu also returned to melodrama acting via Ina, Kapatid, Anak, alongside Xian Lim, Maja Salvador and
Enchong Dee.[28] After the teleserye ended with an average TV rating of 30.3% via Kantar Media/TNS, it
was awarded Best Teleserye of the Year at Philippine's 2013 Yahoo Awards and was aired internationally
as Her Mother's Daughter, released in foreign territories including MIPTV in France and at DISCOP West
Asia in Turkey.[29][30] Her portrayal also earned her an award for Best TV Drama Actress.[31] She
reunited in a movie with Anderson titled 24/7 in Love, Star Magic's ensemble film in view of the agency's
20th anniversary.[32]

She starred in a film adaption of Ramon Bautista's novel co-starring Xian Lim, Bakit Hindi Ka Crush Ng
Crush Mo?, released on July 17, 2013.[33] Her performance received positive feedback and critics praise
in view of her first comedic role on the big screen.[34]

In January 2014, Chiu cemented her commercial draw with the romantic-comedy movie entitled Bride
for Rent. Chiu plays Rocky, a poor woman who agrees to marry for money. As Star Cinema's first movie
offering of 2014, the film met both critical and commercial success, earning more than P21.2 million
pesos in its opening day[35][36] and broke the P200 million pesos mark on its 8th day.[37] The film
established Chiu as one of the country's biggest stars having both a successful film and television career.
Having grossed P325 million,[38] it is the sixth highest grossing Filipino film of all time, the second
highest grossing Filipino romantic comedy movie of all-time, third highest grossing non-MMFF film of all-
time and also the highest-grossing January-released film of all-time in the country.[39][40][41]

After the success of her two films, Chiu returned to television in the 2014 period drama, Ikaw Lamang.
The series co-stars Coco Martin, Julia Montes, Jake Cuenca and KC Concepcion and dealt with social
class, politics, and forbidden love. It held the first and second place viewer rating in its time slot and was
awarded Best Primetime Drama Series at the 28th PMPC Star Awards for Television.[42][43] This
followed with the romantic comedy film, Past Tense[44] and a portrayal as Mulan for Walt Disney Asia's
12 Days of Princess campaign.[45]

In 2015, she appeared as one of five mistresses (alongside veterans Kris Aquino, Claudine Barretto, Iza
Calzado) in the high-profile film, Etiquette for Mistresses.[46] She recorded the Cebuano songs "Duyog"
and "Labyu Langga" for the film's soundtrack.[47] She also top-billed in the rom-com, All You Need Is
Pag-Ibig, which is Star Cinema's official entry to the 2015 MMFF.[48]
In 2016, she starred on the hit Philippine romantic drama, The Story of Us.[49][50] Her performance as
Tin Manalo gave her another Best Actress Awards from 6th EdukCircle Awards, 6th OFW Parangal
Awards and Guillermo Mendoza. Also, on the last quarter of 2016, Kimerald loveteam was announced to
set back on television via a triathlon soap opera television series Ikaw Lang ang Iibigin for the celebration
of their 10th anniversary in show business.[51][52]

In May 2017, Ikaw Lang ang Iibigin premiered on ABS-CBN's PrimeTanghali noontime block replacing
Langit Lupa. The show debuted at Number 1 in its time slot, and consistently ranked ahead of its
competition during its nine-month run.[53]

In November 2017, she appears in the horror movie, The Ghost Bride where she plays the role as Mayen
Lim who is the main protagonist of this film that she will be torn between living a normal though difficult
life or accepting a strange business proposal called the Ghost Wedding in exchange for wealth and a
comfortable life for her loved ones. She is also accompanied by Matteo Guidicelli, Alice Dixson, Christian
Bables and Cacai Bautista in this said movie project which was set to show on theatres on All Saints' Day.
In April 2018, she appears in the Filipino horror-comedy film Da One That Ghost Away directed by Tony
Y. Reyes together with Ryan Bang, Enzo Pineda and the duo of Maymay Entrata and Edward Barber.