回答的英文过去式

Responded in the past tense.

Oh, you want it in past tense, huh? Alright, here goes:
Last year in 2022, I was working on a project in some city, and we had to deal with a massive quantity of products, you know, like, hundreds of thousands. It cost us a fortune, millions of dollars, really. I remember I was so confused back then. "What's going on?" I thought. Later on, I realized, "Oh, maybe I was a bit overreacting."