diff --git a/internal/core/src/common/bson_view.h b/internal/core/src/common/bson_view.h
index 1e7788df0f..757e67cf4e 100644
--- a/internal/core/src/common/bson_view.h
+++ b/internal/core/src/common/bson_view.h
@@ -198,6 +198,59 @@ class BsonView {
         : data_(data.data()), size_(data.size()) {
     }
 
+    // Core implementation: check if a BSON value is "empty" (null or recursively contains only nulls/empties)
+    // Following the same semantics as Json::isObjectEmpty/isDocEmpty in Json.h
+    static bool
+    IsBsonValueEmpty(const bsoncxx::types::bson_value::view& val) {
+        switch (val.type()) {
+            case bsoncxx::type::k_null:
+                return true;
+            case bsoncxx::type::k_document:
+                return IsBsonValueEmpty(val.get_document().value);
+            case bsoncxx::type::k_array:
+                return IsBsonValueEmpty(val.get_array().value);
+            default:
+                return false;
+        }
+    }
+
+    static bool
+    IsBsonValueEmpty(const bsoncxx::document::view& doc) {
+        for (auto&& elem : doc) {
+            if (!IsBsonValueEmpty(elem.get_value())) {
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    static bool
+    IsBsonValueEmpty(const bsoncxx::array::view& arr) {
+        for (auto&& elem : arr) {
+            if (!IsBsonValueEmpty(elem.get_value())) {
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    bool
+    IsBsonValueEmpty(size_t offset) const {
+        AssertInfo(offset < size_, "bson offset out of range");
+        auto field = ParseBsonField(data_, offset);
+
+        switch (field.type) {
+            case bsoncxx::type::k_null:
+                return true;
+            case bsoncxx::type::k_document:
+                return IsBsonValueEmpty(ParseAsDocument(field.value_ptr));
+            case bsoncxx::type::k_array:
+                return IsBsonValueEmpty(ParseAsArray(field.value_ptr));
+            default:
+                return false;
+        }
+    }
+
     explicit BsonView(const uint8_t* data, size_t size)
         : data_(data), size_(size) {
     }
@@ -441,7 +494,7 @@ class BsonView {
     }
 
     inline BsonRawField
-    ParseBsonField(const uint8_t* bson_data, size_t offset) {
+    ParseBsonField(const uint8_t* bson_data, size_t offset) const {
         const uint8_t* ptr = bson_data + offset;
         auto type_tag = static_cast<bsoncxx::type>(*ptr++);
 
diff --git a/internal/core/src/exec/expression/ExistsExpr.cpp b/internal/core/src/exec/expression/ExistsExpr.cpp
index 0dee783796..60f411e361 100644
--- a/internal/core/src/exec/expression/ExistsExpr.cpp
+++ b/internal/core/src/exec/expression/ExistsExpr.cpp
@@ -204,23 +204,28 @@ PhyExistsFilterExpr::EvalJsonExistsForDataSegmentByStats() {
         Assert(index != nullptr);
 
         cached_index_chunk_res_ = std::make_shared<TargetBitmap>(active_count_);
-        cached_index_chunk_valid_res_ =
-            std::make_shared<TargetBitmap>(active_count_, true);
         TargetBitmapView res_view(*cached_index_chunk_res_);
-        TargetBitmapView valid_res_view(*cached_index_chunk_valid_res_);
 
-        // process shredding data
-        auto shredding_fields = index->GetShreddingFields(pointer);
+        // process shredding data, for exists, we only need to check the fields
+        // that start with the given prefix which contains the given pointer
+        auto shredding_fields = index->GetShreddingFieldsWithPrefix(pointer);
         for (const auto& field : shredding_fields) {
-            index->ExecutorForGettingValid(op_ctx_, field, valid_res_view);
-            res_view |= valid_res_view;
+            TargetBitmap temp_valid(active_count_, true);
+            TargetBitmapView temp_valid_view(temp_valid);
+            index->ExecutorForGettingValid(op_ctx_, field, temp_valid_view);
+            res_view |= temp_valid_view;
         }
 
         if (!index->CanSkipShared(pointer)) {
-            // process shared data
-            index->ExecuteExistsPathForSharedData(pointer, res_view);
+            // process shared data, need to check if the value is empty
+            // which match the semantics of exists in Json.h
+            index->ExecuteForSharedData(
+                op_ctx_,
+                pointer,
+                [&](BsonView bson, uint32_t row_id, uint32_t offset) {
+                    res_view[row_id] = !bson.IsBsonValueEmpty(offset);
+                });
         }
-        cached_index_chunk_id_ = 0;
     }
 
     TargetBitmap result;
diff --git a/internal/core/src/index/json_stats/JsonKeyStats.h b/internal/core/src/index/json_stats/JsonKeyStats.h
index 50a7951df6..7b53c5d698 100644
--- a/internal/core/src/index/json_stats/JsonKeyStats.h
+++ b/internal/core/src/index/json_stats/JsonKeyStats.h
@@ -362,6 +362,26 @@ class JsonKeyStats : public ScalarIndex<std::string> {
         return fields;
     }
 
+    // return all shredding fields whose pointers start with the given prefix
+    // for example, prefix "/a/b" will include fields for "/a/b" and "/a/b/..."
+    std::set<std::string>
+    GetShreddingFieldsWithPrefix(const std::string& prefix) {
+        std::set<std::string> fields;
+        for (const auto& [path, field_names] : key_field_map_) {
+            if (path.size() >= prefix.size() &&
+                path.compare(0, prefix.size(), prefix) == 0 &&
+                (path.size() == prefix.size() || path[prefix.size()] == '/')) {
+                for (const auto& field : field_names) {
+                    if (shred_field_data_type_map_.find(field) !=
+                        shred_field_data_type_map_.end()) {
+                        fields.insert(field);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return fields;
+    }
+
     std::string
     GetShreddingField(const std::string& pointer, JSONType type) {
         if (key_field_map_.find(pointer) == key_field_map_.end()) {
diff --git a/tests/python_client/milvus_client/test_milvus_client_query.py b/tests/python_client/milvus_client/test_milvus_client_query.py
index 94f5ef56de..9eb171a207 100644
--- a/tests/python_client/milvus_client/test_milvus_client_query.py
+++ b/tests/python_client/milvus_client/test_milvus_client_query.py
@@ -4167,7 +4167,6 @@ class TestMilvusClientQueryJsonPathIndex(TestMilvusClientV2Base):
         # 3. flush if specified
         if is_flush:
             self.flush(client, collection_name)
-        time.sleep(300)
         # 4. query when there is no json path index under all expressions
         # skip negative expression for issue 40685
         # "my_json['a'] != 1", "my_json['a'] != 1.0", "my_json['a'] != '1'", "my_json['a'] != 1.1", "my_json['a'] not in [1]"