diff --git a/kernel/model/virutalref.go b/kernel/model/virutalref.go
index d0ca24d44..5c1c8698c 100644
--- a/kernel/model/virutalref.go
+++ b/kernel/model/virutalref.go
@@ -157,6 +157,8 @@ func processVirtualRef(n *ast.Node, unlinks *[]*ast.Node, virtualBlockRefKeyword
 			}
 		}
 
+		// Wrong parsing virtual reference with `\` before it https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/issues/7821
+		newContent = strings.ReplaceAll(newContent, "\\"+search.GetMarkSpanStart(search.VirtualBlockRefDataType), "\\\\"+search.GetMarkSpanStart(search.VirtualBlockRefDataType))
 		n.Tokens = []byte(newContent)
 		linkTree := parse.Inline("", n.Tokens, luteEngine.ParseOptions)
 		var children []*ast.Node