diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8ad7a36..bb8f5b3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ marked:
   autolink: true
   sanitizeUrl: false
   headerIds: true
+  prependRoot: false
 ```
 
 - **gfm** - Enables [GitHub flavored markdown](https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown)
@@ -42,6 +43,13 @@ marked:
 - **autolink** - Enable autolink for URLs. E.g. `https://hexo.io` will become `<a href="https://hexo.io">https://hexo.io</a>`.
 - **sanitizeUrl** - Remove URLs that start with `javascript:`, `vbscript:` and `data:`.
 - **headerIds** - Insert header id, e.g. `<h1 id="value">text</h1>`. Useful for inserting anchor link to each paragraph with a heading.
+- **headerIds** - Insert header id, e.g. `<h1 id="value">text</h1>`. Useful for inserting anchor link to each paragraph with a heading.
+- **prependRoot** - Prepend root value to (internal) image path.
+  * Example `_config.yml`:
+  ``` yml
+  root: /blog/
+  ```
+  * `![text](/path/to/image.jpg)` becomes `<img src="/blog/path/to/image.jpg" alt="text">`
 
 ## Extras
 
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index aa1605c..6c75006 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ hexo.config.marked = Object.assign({
   modifyAnchors: '',
   autolink: true,
   sanitizeUrl: false,
-  headerIds: true
+  headerIds: true,
+  // TODO: enable prependRoot by default in v3
+  prependRoot: false
 }, hexo.config.marked);
 
 hexo.extend.renderer.register('md', 'html', renderer, true);
diff --git a/lib/renderer.js b/lib/renderer.js
index 61f9fb3..c67103c 100644
--- a/lib/renderer.js
+++ b/lib/renderer.js
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
 
 const marked = require('marked');
 const stripIndent = require('strip-indent');
-const { stripHTML, highlight, slugize } = require('hexo-util');
+const { stripHTML, highlight, slugize, encodeURL, url_for } = require('hexo-util');
 const MarkedRenderer = marked.Renderer;
+const { parse } = require('url');
 
 function Renderer() {
   MarkedRenderer.apply(this);
@@ -82,6 +83,16 @@ Renderer.prototype.paragraph = text => {
   return `<p>${text}</p>\n`;
 };
 
+// Prepend root to image path
+Renderer.prototype.image = function(href, title, text) {
+  if (!parse(href).hostname && !this.options.config.relative_link
+    && this.options.prependRoot) {
+    href = url_for.call(this.options, href);
+  }
+
+  return `<img src="${encodeURL(href)}" alt="${text}">`;
+};
+
 marked.setOptions({
   langPrefix: '',
   highlight(code, lang) {
@@ -94,7 +105,14 @@ marked.setOptions({
 });
 
 module.exports = function(data, options) {
+  const url_forCfg = Object.assign({}, {
+    config: {
+      root: this.config.root,
+      relative_link: this.config.relative_link
+    }
+  });
+
   return marked(data.text, Object.assign({
     renderer: new Renderer()
-  }, this.config.marked, options));
+  }, this.config.marked, options, url_forCfg));
 };
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 5f1f25b..2c9bba4 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@
   ],
   "license": "MIT",
   "dependencies": {
-    "hexo-util": "^1.0.1",
+    "hexo": "^3.9.0",
+    "hexo-util": "^1.3.0",
     "marked": "^0.7.0",
     "strip-indent": "^3.0.0"
   },
diff --git a/test/index.js b/test/index.js
index 169b9b9..a3b99ad 100644
--- a/test/index.js
+++ b/test/index.js
@@ -191,4 +191,75 @@ describe('Marked renderer', () => {
       ].join('\n'));
     });
   });
+
+  describe('prependRoot option tests', () => {
+    const body = [
+      '![](/bar/baz.jpg)',
+      '![foo](/aaa/bbb.jpg)'
+    ].join('\n');
+
+    const renderer = require('../lib/renderer');
+
+    const ctx = {
+      config: {
+        marked: {
+          prependRoot: false
+        },
+        root: '/blog/',
+        relative_link: false
+      }
+    };
+
+    it('should not modify image path with default option', () => {
+      const r = renderer.bind(ctx);
+      const result = r({text: body});
+
+      result.should.eql([
+        '<p><img src="/bar/baz.jpg" alt="">',
+        '<img src="/aaa/bbb.jpg" alt="foo"></p>\n'
+      ].join('\n'));
+    });
+
+    it('should not modify image path when enable relative_link', () => {
+      ctx.config.relative_link = true;
+      const r = renderer.bind(ctx);
+      const result = r({text: body});
+
+      result.should.eql([
+        '<p><img src="/bar/baz.jpg" alt="">',
+        '<img src="/aaa/bbb.jpg" alt="foo"></p>\n'
+      ].join('\n'));
+
+      ctx.config.relative_link = false;
+    });
+
+    it('should prepend image path with root', () => {
+      ctx.config.marked.prependRoot = true;
+      const r = renderer.bind(ctx);
+      const result = r({text: body});
+
+      result.should.eql([
+        '<p><img src="/blog/bar/baz.jpg" alt="">',
+        '<img src="/blog/aaa/bbb.jpg" alt="foo"></p>\n'
+      ].join('\n'));
+      ctx.config.marked.prependRoot = false;
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('should encode image url', () => {
+    const body = [
+      '![](/foo/bár.jpg)',
+      '![](http://fóo.com/bar.jpg)'
+    ].join('\n');
+
+    const renderer = require('../lib/renderer');
+    const r = renderer.bind(ctx);
+
+    const result = r({text: body});
+
+    result.should.eql([
+      '<p><img src="/foo/b%C3%A1r.jpg" alt="">',
+      '<img src="http://xn--fo-5ja.com/bar.jpg" alt=""></p>\n'
+    ].join('\n'));
+  });
 });