diff --git a/epwing.cc b/epwing.cc
index a87d9f08..9aa0eb68 100644
--- a/epwing.cc
+++ b/epwing.cc
@@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ private:
   friend class EpwingWordSearchRequest;
   string epwing_previous_button(int& articleOffset, int& articlePage);
   string epwing_next_button(int& articleOffset, int& articlePage);
+  bool readHeadword( EB_Position & pos, QString & headword );
 };
 
 
@@ -578,8 +579,8 @@ void EpwingArticleRequest::run()
   multimap< wstring, pair< string, string > > mainArticles, alternateArticles;
 
   set< quint32 > articlesIncluded; // Some synonims make it that the articles
-                                    // appear several times. We combat this
-                                    // by only allowing them to appear once.
+                                   // appear several times. We combat this
+                                   // by only allowing them to appear once.
 
   wstring wordCaseFolded = Folding::applySimpleCaseOnly( word );
   if( ignoreDiacritics )
@@ -1043,6 +1044,20 @@ sptr< Dictionary::WordSearchRequest > EpwingDictionary::stemmedMatch(
   return std::make_shared<EpwingWordSearchRequest>( *this, str, minLength, (int)maxSuffixVariation,
                                       false, maxResults );
 }
+bool Epwing::EpwingDictionary::readHeadword( EB_Position & pos, QString & headword )
+{
+  try
+  {
+    Mutex::Lock _( eBook.getLibMutex() );
+    eBook.readHeadword( pos,headword, true);
+    eBook.fixHeadword( headword );
+    return eBook.isHeadwordCorrect( headword ) ;
+  }
+  catch( std::exception & e )
+  {
+    return false;
+  }
+}
 
 } // anonymous namespace
 
@@ -1258,11 +1273,6 @@ vector< sptr< Dictionary::Class > > makeDictionaries(
                 break;
             }
 
-            while( dict.processRef( head ) )
-            {
-              addWordToChunks( head, chunks, indexedWords, wordCount, articleCount );
-            }
-
             dict.clearBuffers();
 
             // Finish with the chunks
diff --git a/epwing_book.cc b/epwing_book.cc
index c88e482d..0ef2ef20 100644
--- a/epwing_book.cc
+++ b/epwing_book.cc
@@ -1002,8 +1002,6 @@ bool EpwingBook::getNextHeadword( EpwingHeadword & head )
 
     indexHeadwordsPosition = pos;
 
-
-
     head.page = pos.page;
     head.offset = pos.offset;
 
@@ -1033,54 +1031,6 @@ bool EpwingBook::getNextHeadword( EpwingHeadword & head )
   return true;
 }
 
-bool EpwingBook::processRef( EpwingHeadword & head)
-{
-  EB_Position pos;
-
-  QRegularExpression badLinks( "#(v|n)\\d", QRegularExpression::UseUnicodePropertiesOption );
-  while( !LinksQueue.isEmpty() )
-  {
-    EWPos epos = LinksQueue.last();
-    LinksQueue.pop_back();
-
-    pos.page   = epos.first;
-    pos.offset = epos.second;
-
-    // epwing ebook use ref link to navigate , the headword(at such position) usually has no meaningful point.
-    if( readHeadword( pos, head.headword, true ) )
-    {
-      if( head.headword.isEmpty() || head.headword.contains( badLinks ) )
-        continue;
-
-      fixHeadword( head.headword );
-
-      head.page   = pos.page;
-      head.offset = pos.offset;
-      auto key    = ( (uint64_t)pos.page ) << 32 | ( pos.offset );
-      //this  only add the existed reference point which has already in the headwords as another headword(rxxxxAtxxxx) in the headword list.
-      //this will make the loadarticle's real reference link judgement easier.
-      if( allHeadwordPositions.contains( key ) )
-      {
-        // fixed the reference headword ,to avoid the headword collision with other entry .
-        //if(!allHeadwordPositions.contains(key))
-        head.headword = QString( "r%1at%2" ).arg( pos.page ).arg( pos.offset );
-
-        //allRefPositions[ key ] = true;
-
-        try
-        {
-          getReferencesFromText( pos.page, pos.offset);
-        }
-        catch( std::exception & )
-        {
-        }
-        return true;
-      }
-    }
-  }
-  return false;
-}
-
 bool EpwingBook::readHeadword( EB_Position const& pos,
                                QString & headword,
                                bool text_only )
@@ -1199,6 +1149,13 @@ void EpwingBook::fixHeadword( QString & headword )
   QRegularExpression leadingNumAndSpace( R"(^[\d\s]+\b)" );
   fixed.remove( leadingNumAndSpace );
 
+  auto parts = fixed.split( ' ', Qt::SkipEmptyParts );
+  if( parts.size() > 2 ) {
+    //only return the first parts to avoid duplication
+    headword = QString( "%1 %2" ).arg( parts[ 0 ], parts[ 1 ] );
+    return;
+  }
+
   headword = fixed;
 }
 
diff --git a/epwing_book.hh b/epwing_book.hh
index e0a8054d..8149e8e5 100644
--- a/epwing_book.hh
+++ b/epwing_book.hh
@@ -186,8 +186,6 @@ public:
   // Find next headword and article position
   bool getNextHeadword( EpwingHeadword & head );
 
-  bool processRef( EpwingHeadword & head );
-
   bool readHeadword( EB_Position const & pos,
                      QString & headword,
                      bool text_only );