diff --git a/src/en/webnovel/build.gradle b/src/en/webnovel/build.gradle
index 857410c8c..67150fc07 100644
--- a/src/en/webnovel/build.gradle
+++ b/src/en/webnovel/build.gradle
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ext {
     extName = 'Webnovel.com'
     pkgNameSuffix = 'en.webnovel'
     extClass = '.Webnovel'
-    extVersionCode = 2
+    extVersionCode = 3
     libVersion = '1.2'
 }
 
diff --git a/src/en/webnovel/src/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/extension/en/webnovel/Webnovel.kt b/src/en/webnovel/src/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/extension/en/webnovel/Webnovel.kt
index 067091d5b..5d935d12b 100644
--- a/src/en/webnovel/src/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/extension/en/webnovel/Webnovel.kt
+++ b/src/en/webnovel/src/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/extension/en/webnovel/Webnovel.kt
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.source.model.Page
 import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.source.model.SChapter
 import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.source.model.SManga
 import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.source.online.ParsedHttpSource
+import okhttp3.Headers
 import okhttp3.OkHttpClient
 import okhttp3.Request
 import okhttp3.Response
@@ -30,6 +31,11 @@ class Webnovel : ParsedHttpSource() {
 
     private val dateFormat: SimpleDateFormat = SimpleDateFormat("MMM dd,yyyy", Locale.US)
 
+    override fun headersBuilder() = Headers.Builder().apply {
+        add("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:86.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/86.0 ")
+        add("Referer", baseUrl)
+    }
+
     // popular
     override fun popularMangaRequest(page: Int) = GET("$baseUrl/category/0_comic_page$page", headers)