diff --git a/deps/graph-parser/src/logseq/graph_parser/mldoc.cljc b/deps/graph-parser/src/logseq/graph_parser/mldoc.cljc
index bbc8907604..dd59f3e1c2 100644
--- a/deps/graph-parser/src/logseq/graph_parser/mldoc.cljc
+++ b/deps/graph-parser/src/logseq/graph_parser/mldoc.cljc
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@
   [text config]
   (try
     (if (string/blank? text)
-      {}
+      []
       (-> text
           (inline-parse-json config)
           (common-util/json->clj)