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Ignore the other comments here. These couch experts don't know what they're about.
A VPN hides your traffic from your ISP/network operator. This includes the domain you request (test.website.com) as well as the resource (/hello/123.html)
IF
you also set your DNS server to something other than your ISP or VPN Provider (such as Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 service). Otherwise your ISP will see you are looking up that website.
BECAUSE
the website hopefully uses HTTPS, and the request to that website is end-to-end encrypted, including the resources you're requesting from the server.