Prevent markdown link showing in next post excerpts

[KyleRego]

I noticed a small bug in the excerpt part of the next post link under the body of a post. If I add a markdown link at the very beginning of the article, then the markdown appears in the excerpt:

Here it is with the category-post layout:

It also happens with the post layout:

Interestingly, it does not happen with the previous post part. Anyway, I found that using markdownify, just before strip_html solved the issue.