diff --git a/cypress/integration/rendering/flowchart.spec.js b/cypress/integration/rendering/flowchart.spec.js
index 1ae10aba9..e4766e792 100644
--- a/cypress/integration/rendering/flowchart.spec.js
+++ b/cypress/integration/rendering/flowchart.spec.js
@@ -901,13 +901,8 @@ graph TD
       { htmlLabels: true, flowchart: { htmlLabels: true }, securityLevel: 'loose' }
     );
   });
-  it('67: allow escaping quotes with backslash', () => {
-    imgSnapshotTest(`
-      graph TD
-        a_node("This has an escaped \\" in it") -- "edge string can escape too \\"" --> b_node
-    `);
-  });
-  it('68: should be able to style default node independently', () => {
+
+  it('67: should be able to style default node independently', () => {
     imgSnapshotTest(
       `
     flowchart TD
diff --git a/docs/syntax/flowchart.md b/docs/syntax/flowchart.md
index 5a338c261..fb0b7f2e3 100644
--- a/docs/syntax/flowchart.md
+++ b/docs/syntax/flowchart.md
@@ -610,13 +610,11 @@ For quotation marks, you can escape them with a backslash as well.
 ```mermaid-example
     flowchart LR
         A["A double quote:#quot;"] --> B["A dec char:#9829;"]
-        B --> C["This is a \"square\" vertex"]
 ```
 
 ```mermaid
     flowchart LR
         A["A double quote:#quot;"] --> B["A dec char:#9829;"]
-        B --> C["This is a \"square\" vertex"]
 ```
 
 Numbers given are base 10, so `#` can be encoded as `#35;`. It is also supported to use HTML character names.
diff --git a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowDb.js b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowDb.js
index 33ae68a86..32ffb3df0 100644
--- a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowDb.js
+++ b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/flowDb.js
@@ -91,7 +91,6 @@ export const addVertex = function (_id, textObj, type, style, classes, dir, prop
   if (textObj !== undefined) {
     config = configApi.getConfig();
     txt = sanitizeText(textObj.text.trim());
-    txt = textObj.type === 'string' ? txt.replaceAll('\\"', '"') : txt;
     vertices[id].labelType = textObj.type;
     // strip quotes if string starts and ends with a quote
     if (txt[0] === '"' && txt[txt.length - 1] === '"') {
diff --git a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/parser/flow-text.spec.js b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/parser/flow-text.spec.js
index 3dfde5ccb..b127e1b65 100644
--- a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/parser/flow-text.spec.js
+++ b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/parser/flow-text.spec.js
@@ -598,13 +598,6 @@ describe('[Text] when parsing', () => {
     expect(() => flow.parser.parse(str)).toThrowError("Expecting 'SQE'");
   });
 
-  it('should parse escaped quotes in a string state', function () {
-    //prettier-ignore
-    flow.parser.parse('graph TD; A["This is a \\"()\\" in text"];'); //eslint-disable-line no-useless-escape
-    const vert = flow.parser.yy.getVertices();
-    expect(vert['A'].text).toBe('This is a "()" in text');
-  });
-
   it('should throw error', function () {
     const str = `graph TD; node[hello ) world] --> works`;
     expect(() => flow.parser.parse(str)).toThrowError("got 'PE'");
diff --git a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/parser/flow.jison b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/parser/flow.jison
index a4584c808..8268722f3 100644
--- a/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/parser/flow.jison
+++ b/packages/mermaid/src/diagrams/flowchart/parser/flow.jison
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ Function arguments are optional: 'call <callbackname>()' simply executes 'callba
 
 <md_string>[^`"]+       { return "MD_STR";}
 <md_string>[`]["]       { this.popState();}
-<*>["][`]                  { this.begin("md_string");}
-<string>(\\(?=\")\"|[^"])+           return "STR";
+<*>["][`]               { this.begin("md_string");}
+<string>[^"]+           return "STR";
 <string>["]             this.popState();
 <*>["]                  this.pushState("string");
 "style"                 return 'STYLE';
diff --git a/packages/mermaid/src/docs/syntax/flowchart.md b/packages/mermaid/src/docs/syntax/flowchart.md
index b5308ad50..960bf9755 100644
--- a/packages/mermaid/src/docs/syntax/flowchart.md
+++ b/packages/mermaid/src/docs/syntax/flowchart.md
@@ -392,7 +392,6 @@ For quotation marks, you can escape them with a backslash as well.
 ```mermaid-example
     flowchart LR
         A["A double quote:#quot;"] --> B["A dec char:#9829;"]
-        B --> C["This is a \"square\" vertex"]
 ```
 
 Numbers given are base 10, so `#` can be encoded as `#35;`. It is also supported to use HTML character names.